Saint Matthews African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

Saint Matthews African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is a African Methodist Episcopal Zion church at 4400 E. Linwood Blvd 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.

Our MissionWe exist to advance the kingdom of God, proclaiming the Gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and unconditional love of God to the world.

We are making disciples of every individual in our communities and abroad nurturing them to maturity in Jesus Christ and equipping them for mission and ministry.

4400 E. Linwood Blvd, Kansas City, MO, 64128

Service times

  • Sunday 9am · School - Online

Phone: (816) 861-2457 · Website: https://www.stmatthewkc.org/

Saint Matthews African Methodist Episcopal 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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Latest from St. Matthew AME Zion Church's YouTube channel: 9/13/2026 - Renovation, Recreation, Reconciliation - Scripture- 2 Corinthians 5:11-21 NLT (all videos).

The community around Saint Matthews African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.

  • Obesity: 50.6%
  • Food Insecurity: 43.7%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.5%
  • Housing Insecurity: 35.2%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 28.8%
  • Transportation Barriers: 22.8%
  • Diabetes: 22.6%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.4% (11.7–29.0%)
  • Social Isolation: 38.3%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.3%
  • Poverty Rate: 25.5% (14.4–36.6%)
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.8%
  • Unemployment: 9.4% (2.4–16.4%)
  • Depression: 23.2%

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

Kansas City city is served by 493 churches — about one congregation for every 1,000 residents.

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