Saint Mark African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Saint Mark African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is a African Methodist Episcopal Zion church in East Chicago, IN 46312. It is one of 89 churches in East Chicago.
East Chicago, IN, 46312Website: http://www.amez.org/index.php
Saint Mark African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 618 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Indiana — 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 Mark African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 46.3%
- Food Insecurity: 35.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.5%
- Diabetes: 20.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.8%
- Social Isolation: 35.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.0%
- Child Poverty: 26.4% (9.5–43.2%)
- Poverty Rate: 18.3% (10.3–26.3%)
- Transportation Barriers: 15.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
East Chicago city is served by 55 churches — about one congregation for every 479 residents.
Churches near Saint Mark African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
- Greater Destiny Bible Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saints Peter and Paul Eastern Rite Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint George Serbian Orthodox Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Paul Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Mark's African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia De Dios Pentecostal RMO — 0.3 mi away
- Assumption Church of the Blessed Virgin — 0.4 mi away
- House of Glory Word Outreach — 0.4 mi away
- Saint John Cantius Roman Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint Mark's African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Metropolitan Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away
- St. Luke African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.9 mi away
- Saint John African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 3.8 mi away in Hammond, IN
- Living Waters Free Methodist Church — 3.8 mi away in Gary, IN
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