First Community A.M.E. Church
First Community A.M.E. Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 500 James Ave SE in Grand Rapids, MI 49503. It is one of 418 churches in Grand Rapids, and one of 2 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
We are called to strengthen our faith and sent to continue the ministry of Jesus Christ by service and witness to the world.
First Community is a progressive church that offers a wide array of ministries and organizations to meet the diverse requirements of those who need to be served – or want to volunteer their services.
500 James Ave SE, Grand Rapids, MI, 49503Phone: (616) 459-0151 · Website: https://www.fcame.org/
First Community A.M.E. 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 First Community A.M.E. Church
- Food pantry
- Youth programs
- Elder support
- Family support
- Women's ministry
- Men's ministry
- Counseling services
- Spiritual growth
- Worship services
- Youth Ministry
- Senior Ministry
- Counseling Ministry
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The community around First Community A.M.E. Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 36.1%
- Depression: 29.4%
- Poverty Rate: 22.8% (15.8–29.7%)
- Food Insecurity: 20.0%
- Obesity: 36.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Grand Rapids city is served by 313 churches — about one congregation for every 628 residents.
Churches near First Community A.M.E. Church
- Messiah Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- St Philip's Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Grand Rapids La Paz Spanish SDA — 0.1 mi away
- Urban Family Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Wealthy Street Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Eastern Ave Christian — 0.2 mi away
- St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- 811 Wealthy St SE — 0.2 mi away
- Eastern Avenue Church Of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- St. Luke A.M.E. Zion Church — 0.8 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Plainfield United Methodist Church — 2.5 mi away