St. Paul AME Zion Church
St. Paul AME Zion Church is a African Methodist Episcopal Zion church at 11359 Dexter Avenue in Detroit, MI 48206. It is one of 1,584 churches in Detroit, and one of 3 African Methodist Episcopal Zion congregations in the city.
The mission of The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is to increase our love for God and to help meet the needs of humankind by “Loving God with all our heart, mind, and soul, and our neighbor as ourselves.
St. Paul A.M.E. Zion Church in Detroit, Michigan is here for your spiritual well-being.
11359 Dexter Avenue, Detroit, MI, 48206St. Paul AME Zion 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.
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The community around St. Paul AME Zion Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 57.5%
- Obesity: 49.6%
- Food Insecurity: 47.6%
- Poverty Rate: 40.8% (23.5–58.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 35.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 30.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 24.3%
- Diabetes: 23.2%
- Social Isolation: 37.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.4%
- Unemployment: 8.9% (0.2–18.0%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.8% (4.3–24.1%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Detroit city is served by 1,247 churches — about one congregation for every 510 residents.
Churches near St. Paul AME Zion Church
- The Community Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Elevation Fellowship Temple — 0.2 mi away
- Christian Community Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Willow Grove Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Love Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Detroit Temple - The Salvation Army — 0.4 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses--Livernois, Mid-Wyoming, & Rochester Park South — 0.4 mi away
- Jehovah's Witness Linwood Congregation — 0.4 mi away
- St. Matthew AME Church — 0.4 mi away
- Russell Woods Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- St. Andrew AME Church — 0.7 mi away
- St. Luke Church — 1.8 mi away in Highland Park, MI
- Hamlett Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.9 mi away
- St. Stephen AME Church — 2.1 mi away
- Central Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 2.1 mi away