Metropolitan AME Zion Church
Metropolitan AME Zion Church is a African Methodist Episcopal Zion church at 2828 Prospect Avenue in Kansas City, MO 64128. It is one of 783 churches in Kansas City, and one of 2 African Methodist Episcopal Zion congregations in the city.
The mission of the AME Zion church is to increase our love for God and to help meet the needs of humankind by “Loving God with all of our heart, with all of our soul and with our entire mind; and to love our neighbor as ourselves.”
Metropolitan AME Zion church is a place for all believers and those who seek to know the Lord - children, youth, young adults, adults and seniors.
Serving since 1911
2828 Prospect Avenue, Kansas City, MO, 64128Metropolitan AME Zion Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 428 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Missouri — 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 Metropolitan AME Zion 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. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand 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: 52.0% (34.4–70.0%)
- Obesity: 50.1%
- Food Insecurity: 39.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 32.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 27.0%
- Diabetes: 22.6%
- Social Isolation: 37.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.9%
- Unemployment: 8.3% (2.0–14.7%)
- Depression: 23.1%
- Poverty Rate: 19.2% (10.8–27.6%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.6% (4.9–18.4%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Kansas City city is served by 493 churches — about one congregation for every 1,000 residents.
Churches near Metropolitan AME Zion Church
- Haven of Rest Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- The Church Of God — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Augustine's Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Paul United Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bethlehem Antioch Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Pleasant Green Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Shammah House Of Worship — 0.3 mi away
- Emmanuel Temple Pentecostal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Highland Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Jamison Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) — 0.9 mi away
- Gregg Tabernacle African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.1 mi away
- Centennial United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Saint Matthews African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 1.2 mi away
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