St Andrew Ame Church
St Andrew Ame Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 32 W Illinois St in Chicago, IL 60654. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 6 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
The mission of St. Andrew A.M.E. Church is to Minister to Memphis – spirit, soul and body.
St. Andrew A.M.E. Church has been ministering to the Memphis community for 145 years.
32 W Illinois St, Chicago, IL, 60654Phone: (601) 446-8133 · Website: https://saintandrewamec.org/about-us/
St Andrew Ame Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,033 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Illinois — 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.
Ministries at St Andrew Ame Church
- Affordable housing
- Social service outreach
- Community education
- Childcare and youth education
- Community baby shower
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Latest from St Andrew AME Church's YouTube channel: 2nd Sunday - September 13, 2026 (all videos).
The community around St Andrew Ame 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. Nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,400 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.
- Food Insecurity: 48.9%
- Obesity: 45.8%
- Social Isolation: 41.0%
- Child Poverty: 40.4% (22.0–58.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 37.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.9%
- Poverty Rate: 31.9% (18.7–45.2%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 23.3%
- Diabetes: 20.7%
- Unemployment: 16.9% (8.8–25.0%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.7% (6.1–21.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St Andrew Ame Church
- St Andrews Temple — 0 mi away
- Miracle Corner — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Justin Martyr Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Community Vinegard Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Mt Calvary M B Church — 0.2 mi away
- Golgotha Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.2 mi away
- Prince of Peace Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Pisidia Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- West Englewood United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Carmel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.8 mi away
- Greater Saint John African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.9 mi away
- Christ United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Grace-Calvary United Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away