Ebenezer A.M.E. Church Poetry Ministry
Ebenezer A.M.E. Church Poetry Ministry is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 7707 Allentown Rd in Fort Washington, MD 20744-1740. It is one of 62 churches in Fort Washington, and one of 2 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
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7707 Allentown Rd, Fort Washington, MD, 20744-1740Phone: (301) 265-8254 · Website: https://www.poetryxhunger.com/hunger-poems/category/sistah-joy-alford
Ebenezer A.M.E. Church Poetry Ministry 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 Ebenezer A.M.E. Church Poetry Ministry
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 42.1%
- Social Isolation: 36.4%
- Diabetes: 15.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.7%
- Food Insecurity: 20.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.7%
- Unemployment: 6.7% (2.5–10.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
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- Bethel Free Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
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- New Life Family Fellowship Church — 0.9 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Ebenezer AME Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bethel Free Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Camp Springs United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Union Bethel AME Church — 1.3 mi away in Temple Hills, MD
- Corkran Memorial Methodist Church — 2 mi away in Temple Hills, MD
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