Payne Memorial Ame Church
Payne Memorial Ame Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church in Waterloo, IA 50703. It is one of 126 churches in Waterloo.
We are a community rooted in love, shaped by the teachings of Jesus, and committed to the work of liberation and healing.
Waterloo, IA, 50703Service times
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 10am
Phone: (319) 233-8189 · Website: http://www.paynememorialame.church/
Payne Memorial Ame Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 743 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Iowa — 25,985 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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Latest from Payne Memorial AME Church's YouTube channel: Sunday Morning Worship | September 6, 2026 (all videos).
The community around Payne Memorial Ame 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 adults live with obesity, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,100 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.
- Obesity: 53.9%
- Food Insecurity: 35.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.6%
- Unemployment: 25.6% (11.1–40.2%)
- Diabetes: 21.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.5%
- Social Isolation: 36.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.0%
- Poverty Rate: 19.0% (10.7–27.4%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Waterloo city is served by 83 churches — about one congregation for every 813 residents.
Churches near Payne Memorial Ame Church
- Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Antioch Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Gospel Temple Church — 0.3 mi away
- Union Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of God in Christ - Gospel Temple — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Calvary Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Hope City Church — 0.6 mi away
- Prairie Lakes Church Waterloo Campus — 0.6 mi away
- First Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Jubilee United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Urban Misistry Methodist Church;Calvary United Methodist Church;Jehovah's Witness Virden Creek — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Pauls United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Jubilee United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 1.8 mi away