Where is First Ame Church located?

First Ame Church is at 1111 N 8th St, Kansas City, KS, 66101-2109.

What time are services at First Ame Church?

First Ame Church meets Sunday at 11am (Mornings for engaging Worship). Times are the church's local time — confirm with the church before visiting.

What denomination is First Ame Church?

First Ame Church in Kansas City, KS is a African Methodist Episcopal church. It is one of 3 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in Kansas City.

First Ame Church

First Ame Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 1111 N 8th St in Kansas City, KS 66101-2109. It is one of 325 churches in Kansas City, and one of 3 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.

First AME (FAME) Church established in 1859, currently located at 1111 North Eighth Street in Kansas City, Kansas is a part of the Midwest Annual Conference. FAME Kansas City, Kansas is the oldest African American Church in the state of Kansas.

Serving since 1859 · Part of Midwest Annual Conference

1111 N 8th St, Kansas City, KS, 66101-2109

Service times

Sunday 11am · Mornings for engaging Worship

Phone: (913) 371-2805 · Website: https://www.firstchurchkc.org/

Shares a ministry location with First A.M.E. Church.

First Ame Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 352 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Kansas — 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 First Ame Church

Music Ministry
Women's Missionary Society
Lay Organization
Usher Board
Scholarship

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The community around First Ame Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 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 more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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: 47.8%
Child Poverty: 42.3% (27.5–57.1%)
Food Insecurity: 40.8%
Poverty Rate: 39.1% (27.6–50.5%)
Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.3%
Housing Insecurity: 30.8%
Uninsured All Ages (Census): 27.0% (19.9–34.0%)
Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.0%
Uninsured Adults 18-64: 24.2%
Diabetes: 18.8%
Unemployment: 12.9% (5.6–20.3%)
Social Isolation: 36.7%
Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.1%
Transportation Barriers: 20.9%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near First Ame Church

First A.M.E. Church — 0 mi away
Metropolitan Baptist Temple — 0.2 mi away
First Hmong CMA Church — 0.2 mi away
Mount Calvary Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
Eighth Street Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
Saint Peter CME Church — 0.2 mi away
Forest Grove Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
Peace and Fellowship Community Church — 0.3 mi away
Union Hill Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
Mason Temple Institutional Church of God — 0.3 mi away

More Methodist churches nearby

Trinity AME Church — 1.1 mi away
Renewed Hope Christian Center — 1.1 mi away
Wesley Methodist Church — 2 mi away
University United Methodist — 2.1 mi away
Central United Methodist Church — 2.2 mi away

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