Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church
Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Westwego, LA 70094. It is one of 31 churches in Westwego.
Westwego, LA, 70094Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 432 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Louisiana — 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 Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 25.5%
- Obesity: 43.9%
- Social Isolation: 38.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.6%
- Poverty Rate: 22.8% (8.8–36.8%)
- Diabetes: 16.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.7%
- Depression: 26.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.0% (5.8–22.2%)
- Unemployment: 6.2% (2.0–10.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Third Emanuel Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Second Salvation Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First King Solomon Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bridge City Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- MMM Bridge city — 0.4 mi away in Bridge City, LA
- Apostolic Gospel Church — 0.5 mi away
- Holy Guardian Angels Mission — 0.5 mi away in Bridge City, LA
- Bible Tabernacle Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saints Fellowship Church — 1.4 mi away in Harahan, LA
- Youth With A Mission Church — 1.4 mi away in New Orleans, LA
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint Pauls United Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away in Harahan, LA
- Jefferson United Methodist Church — 2 mi away in New Orleans, LA
- Williams United Methodist Church — 2.2 mi away in New Orleans, LA
- Friends Meeting of New Orleans — 2.3 mi away in New Orleans, LA
- Carrollton United Methodist Church — 2.3 mi away in New Orleans, LA
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