Petty Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Petty Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is a African Methodist Episcopal Zion church in New Orleans, LA 70115. It is one of 824 churches in New Orleans.
New Orleans, LA, 70115Petty Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion 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 Petty Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is two thousand 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.
- Social Isolation: 40.6%
- Unemployment: 15.5% (0.0–32.5%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.3%
- Depression: 28.0%
- Food Insecurity: 24.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.9%
- Poverty Rate: 20.1% (10.8–29.4%)
- Housing Insecurity: 19.3%
- Diabetes: 13.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
New Orleans city is served by 579 churches — about one congregation for every 657 residents.
Churches near Petty Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
- Holy Ghost Church — 0.1 mi away
- Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- All Nations Fellowship — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Pleasent Grove Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Napoleon Avenue Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Free Church of the Annunciation — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Zion United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Fifth African Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- St. Luke Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Napoleon Avenue Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Zion United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Payne Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Calvary Tabernacle Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away
- Peck United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
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