First Agape AME Zion Church
First Agape AME Zion Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 7727 Persimmon Tree Ln in Bethesda, MD 20817-4517. It is one of 47 churches in Bethesda.
We honor the covenant of 1898 that Sarah Gibson made with the Lord by rebuilding Gibson Grove Church through worship, education, fellowship, and mending the breach from the community through outreach and inclusiveness.
We are the First Agape A.M.E. Zion Church at Gibson Grove at 7700 Seven Locks Road in Bethesda, MD under the leadership of Rev Edgar S. Bankhead Sr.
7727 Persimmon Tree Ln, Bethesda, MD, 20817-4517Service times
- Sunday 10:30am · Service
Phone: (240) 743-5236 · Website: https://www.1stagape.com/
First Agape AME Zion Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 964 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Maryland — 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 First Agape AME Zion Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly a quarter of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of the people here were born in another country. 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.
- Social Isolation: 28.1%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Agape AME Zion Church
- Hermon Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Gibson Grove Church — 0.8 mi away
- Saint George Coptic Orthodox Church — 1.2 mi away
- Saint Andrew Romanian Orthodox Church — 1.3 mi away in Potomac, MD
- Cabin John United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church — 1.4 mi away in Potomac, MD
- St Marks — 1.5 mi away
- Saint Mark Orthodox Church — 1.6 mi away
- Emmanuel Lutheran Church — 1.8 mi away
- Washington United Korean Presbyterian Church — 1.8 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Cabin John United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Concord-Saint Andrews United Methodist Church — 3.1 mi away
- Potomac United Methodist Church — 3.1 mi away in Potomac, MD
- Scotland African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 3.2 mi away in Potomac, MD
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 3.3 mi away in McLean, VA