Saint Lukes African Methodist Episcopal Church
Saint Lukes African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in East Saint Louis, IL 62201. It is one of 65 churches in East Saint Louis, and one of 5 Methodist congregations in the city.
East Saint Louis, IL, 62201Website: https://www.stlukeame.com/
Saint Lukes African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,029 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Illinois — 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 Lukes African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. More than half of adults live with obesity, and more than half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 100.0%
- Obesity: 55.9%
- Food Insecurity: 55.1%
- Poverty Rate: 50.1% (31.5–68.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 43.8%
- Social Isolation: 41.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 40.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 38.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 33.1%
- Diabetes: 27.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 27.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.3%
- Unemployment: 7.5% (2.0–13.0%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
East St. Louis city is served by 78 churches — about one congregation for every 249 residents.
Churches near Saint Lukes African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Saint Augustine of Hippo Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away in East St. Louis, IL
- Christian and Missionary Alliance Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Divine Holiness Temple Church — 0.2 mi away in East St Louis, IL
- United Faith Missionary Baptist — 0.2 mi away in East St Louis, IL
- Wisdom Way Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Word-Life Spiritual — 0.2 mi away in East St Louis, IL
- Bethel Temple Church — 0.3 mi away in East St Louis, IL
- Light Of Christ Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Pilgrim Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.1 mi away in East St. Louis, IL
- Bray Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.1 mi away
- Shiloh AME Church — 1.2 mi away in East St. Louis, IL
- State Street Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Bethel Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away
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