First African Methodist Episcopal Church
First African Methodist Episcopal Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church in Gary, IN 46407. It is one of 275 churches in Gary, and one of 2 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
This group (including men) does so many things. They support community organizations, like Brothers Keeper, by collecting supplies. They distribute food during the holidays. The follow up with members who are sick and shut in. And the list goes on. We thank God for their benevolent work.
Gary, IN, 46407Service times
- Sunday 10:30am
- Sunday 9:30am
Phone: (219) 886-7561 · Website: https://firstamechurch.org/
First African Methodist Episcopal 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.
Ministries at First African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Food Pantry
- Women’s Missionary Society
- Sunday School
- Children’s Nursery
- Youth Church
- Praise Dancers
- Men's Ministry
- Chancel Choir
- Praise Team
- Male Chorus
- Door Greeters
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The community around First African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 8 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. More than half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,200 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: 81.5%
- Obesity: 55.9%
- Food Insecurity: 51.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 43.6%
- Poverty Rate: 38.5% (24.8–52.1%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 34.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 32.5%
- Diabetes: 29.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 24.5%
- Social Isolation: 37.3%
- Unemployment: 11.0% (0.5–26.3%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.
Gary city is served by 184 churches — about one congregation for every 375 residents.
Churches near First African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Unity Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Washington Street Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Metropolitan Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Christ Temple Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Christian Valley Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Metropolitan Oasis Community — 0.3 mi away
- Faith Tabernacle Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Providence Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Israel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Allen Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Delaney Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Bethlehem African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.5 mi away
- Greater Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away