First Agape AME Zion Church

First Agape AME Zion Church is a church at 7727 Persimmon Tree Ln in Bethesda, MD 20817-4517. It is one of 34 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, 20817-4517

Phone: +12407435236 · Website: https://www.1stagape.com/

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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.

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