Saint Stephens African Methodist Episcopal Church

Saint Stephens African Methodist Episcopal Church is a church in Jacksonville, FL 32209. It is one of 1,416 churches in Jacksonville.

Jacksonville, FL, 32209

Website: http://saintstephenamec.com

Saint Stephens African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 932 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Florida — 25,370 across the United States on The Church Map.

Methodism gave the church the class meeting, the circuit rider, and the Sunday school, and gave America the conviction that grace is genuinely for everyone — carried into prisons, mines, and mill towns by preachers who owned almost nothing. Charles Wesley's hymns are still sung in nearly every tradition, most of them by people who have no idea whose they are.

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The community around Saint Stephens African Methodist Episcopal Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,300 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.

Child Poverty: 73.4% (54.7–92.1%)
Poverty Rate: 52.7%
Obesity: 51.2%
Fair/Poor Health Status: 45.0%
Diabetes: 26.4%
Uninsured Adults 18-64: 24.7%
Unemployment: 14.8% (6.5–23.2%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

Jacksonville city is served by 807 churches — about one congregation for every 1,179 residents.

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Greater Hope First Born Church — 0.2 mi away
The Chosen Of God Miracle Kingdom Builders International Ministries — 0.2 mi away
Greater New Mount Zion Church — 0.2 mi away
Miracle Deliverance Temple — 0.2 mi away
Ethiopian Evangelical Church of Jacksonville — 0.4 mi away
Simpson Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
Central Baptist Institutional Church — 0.4 mi away

More Methodist churches nearby

Simpson Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
Union Community African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
New Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.9 mi away
Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.1 mi away
First United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away

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