Morris Brown African Methodist Episcopal Church
Morris Brown African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in New Orleans, LA 70116. It is one of 824 churches in New Orleans, and one of 44 Methodist congregations in the city.
New Orleans, LA, 70116Website: http://www.ame-church.com
Morris Brown African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 449 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Louisiana — 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.
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The community around Morris Brown African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 40.3%
- Food Insecurity: 37.9%
- Poverty Rate: 36.4% (24.4–48.5%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 25.6% (16.6–34.6%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.8%
- Diabetes: 19.5%
- Unemployment: 14.8% (3.0–26.6%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.8%
- Depression: 30.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.1%
- Obesity: 39.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
New Orleans city is served by 579 churches — about one congregation for every 657 residents.
Churches near Morris Brown African Methodist Episcopal Church
- University Spiritual Church — 0.1 mi away
- Galatia Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Israel Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Christian Congregation Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Holy Aid and Comfort Spiritual Mission — 0.1 mi away
- Genesis Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Tabernacle of Christ Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Joseph Free Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Orleans Triumph Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Original Morning Star Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint Marks United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Thompson United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Philip Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.2 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
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