Saint Josephs African Methodist Episcopal Church

Saint Josephs African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Durham, NC 27707. It is one of 446 churches in Durham, and one of 16 Methodist congregations in the city.

Durham, NC, 27707

Website: https://www.stjosephame.org/

Saint Josephs African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,294 congregations of the Methodist family gather across North Carolina — 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 Saint Josephs African Methodist Episcopal Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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: 43.3%
  • Food Insecurity: 30.3% (20.7–41.6%)
  • Obesity: 40.1%
  • Poverty Rate: 25.5% (14.1–36.8%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 22.5% (15.8–29.3%)
  • Transportation Barriers: 18.6% (13.2–24.6%)
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.7%
  • Unemployment: 11.8% (6.1–17.5%)
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.4%
  • Depression: 24.9%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.8% (17.1–28.5%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Durham city is served by 183 churches — about one congregation for every 1,296 residents.

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