Mt. Zion A.M.E Zion

Mt. Zion A.M.E Zion is a African Methodist Episcopal church at Martin Luther King Dr. in Elizabethtown, NC 28337. It is one of 45 churches in Elizabethtown, and one of 3 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.

The mission of the Connectional Lay Council of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is to prepare and equip laity for life discipleship in the Kingdom of God by maintaining effective ministries that evangelize, encourage and edify the laity.

Martin Luther King Dr., Elizabethtown, NC, 28337

Phone: (910) 247-6579 · Website: https://amezion.org/locations/

Shares a ministry location with Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church.

Mt. Zion A.M.E Zion is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,375 congregations of the Methodist family gather across North Carolina — 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 Mt. Zion A.M.E Zion

In the few miles around this church, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.

  • Child Poverty: 54.5% (35.8–73.2%)
  • Poverty Rate: 33.9% (24.1–43.7%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.8%
  • Food Insecurity: 28.6%
  • Diabetes: 19.9%
  • Obesity: 44.8%
  • Social Isolation: 35.1%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.2%
  • Depression: 24.2%
  • Housing Insecurity: 19.8%
  • Transportation Barriers: 14.3%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.7%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.6% (4.5–18.7%)

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

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