Saint John African Methodist Episcopal Church
Saint John African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Burlington, IA 52601. It is one of 70 churches in Burlington, and one of 6 Methodist congregations in the city.
Burlington, IA, 52601Saint John African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 742 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Iowa — 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 John African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Child Poverty: 37.6% (17.8–57.3%)
- Social Isolation: 35.0%
- Poverty Rate: 25.2% (16.7–33.8%)
- Unemployment: 8.4% (2.7–14.1%)
- Obesity: 39.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.6%
- Food Insecurity: 20.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.9%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Burlington city is served by 51 churches — about one congregation for every 484 residents.
Churches near Saint John African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Whole Truth Gospel Church of Holiness — 0.2 mi away
- Union Baptist Church Full Gospel Fellowship — 0.2 mi away
- Saint John's Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Fellowship Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Patrick's Church — 0.3 mi away
- Faith Temple Cogic — 0.3 mi away
- Harmony Bible Church — 0.3 mi away
- Foursquare Church — 0.4 mi away
- First United Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- West Hill United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Free Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Asbury United Methodist Church — 1.8 mi away