St. Paul A.M.E. Church

St. Paul A.M.E. Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 501 Park Avenue in Columbia, MO 65201. It is one of 156 churches in Columbia.

Also known as the A.M.E. Church for short, the denomination is Methodist in terms of its basic doctrine and order of worship.

501 Park Avenue, Columbia, MO, 65201

Phone: (573) 449-5823 · Website: https://www.stpaulamecomo.com/

St. Paul A.M.E. Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 418 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Missouri — 25,370 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 A.M.E. Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than half of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,300 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.

  • Child Poverty: 73.1% (53.5–92.8%)
  • Poverty Rate: 58.4%
  • Food Insecurity: 34.2%
  • Transportation Barriers: 22.2%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.5%
  • Social Isolation: 37.6%
  • Depression: 30.0%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.1%
  • Housing Insecurity: 23.5%
  • Unemployment: 10.0% (3.1–16.9%)
  • Obesity: 36.1%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.4% (10.6–17.6%)
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.2% (8.2–16.1%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Columbia city is served by 44 churches — about one congregation for every 1,994 residents.

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