New Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church
New Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Wauchula, FL 33873. It is one of 33 churches in Wauchula.
Wauchula, FL, 33873New Mount Zion 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 New Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand 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.
- Poverty Rate: 53.7% (39.8–67.6%)
- Obesity: 45.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 31.7%
- Diabetes: 19.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.3% (11.4–27.3%)
- Child Poverty: 22.7% (8.2–37.2%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near New Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Voice of Deliverance Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Will Duke Road Church-Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Endtime Crossroad Ministry — 0.6 mi away
- Apostolic Assembly Church — 0.7 mi away
- Florida's First Assembly-god — 1 mi away
- Wauchula Seventh-day Adventist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Church of God of the First Born — 1.1 mi away
- Southside Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 1.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Firt United Methodist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Hardee County Spanish United Methodist Church — 2.1 mi away in Zolfo Springs, FL
- First United Methodist Church, Bowling Green — 8.1 mi away in Bowling Green, FL
- First United Methodist Church — 15.6 mi away in Fort Meade, FL
- St John Methodist Church — 18.7 mi away in Sebring, FL