Saunders Memorial AME Church

Saunders Memorial AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 3542 Pennsylvania Street in Detroit, MI 48214. It is one of 1,584 churches in Detroit, and one of 7 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.

Saunders Memorial is committed to loving God and serving its community. Our greatest desire is for all to experience God’s unconditional love through meaningful worship and community outreach.

3542 Pennsylvania Street, Detroit, MI, 48214

Service times

Sunday, December 17, 1950, at 9:00am; Sunday School Session was held and at 11:00am (as listed)

Saunders Memorial AME Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 846 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Michigan — 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.

Ministries at Saunders Memorial AME Church

  • Community Outreach
  • Health Services
  • Community Events

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The community around Saunders Memorial AME Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand 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: 48.0%
  • Food Insecurity: 46.9%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.5%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.3%
  • Housing Insecurity: 35.3%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 29.0%
  • Transportation Barriers: 23.6%
  • Diabetes: 21.8%
  • Unemployment: 14.8% (3.8–25.9%)
  • Social Isolation: 39.0%
  • Poverty Rate: 28.4% (14.8–41.9%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Detroit city is served by 1,247 churches — about one congregation for every 510 residents.

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