Evans Metropolitan AME Zion Church
Evans Metropolitan AME Zion Church is a African Methodist Episcopal Zion church in Fayetteville, NC 28301. It is one of 451 churches in Fayetteville.
Serving since 1796
Fayetteville, NC, 28301Evans Metropolitan AME Zion 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.
Ministries at Evans Metropolitan AME Zion Church
- Community Outreach
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The community around Evans Metropolitan AME Zion Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 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 nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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.
- Obesity: 48.7%
- Child Poverty: 46.4% (32.4–60.6%)
- Food Insecurity: 37.2%
- Poverty Rate: 34.5% (25.6–43.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.8%
- Diabetes: 19.6%
- Unemployment: 13.6% (7.3–19.8%)
- Social Isolation: 38.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.4%
- Depression: 25.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.9% (7.7–18.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Fayetteville city is served by 49 churches — about one congregation for every 4,257 residents.
Churches near Evans Metropolitan AME Zion Church
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Ann Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- St. John's Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Deliverance Church of Jesus — 0.3 mi away
- Kingdom Fold Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Agnus Dei Lutheran Orthodox Church — 0.3 mi away
- Victory of Worship — 0.4 mi away
- Person Street United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Hay Street United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Agnus Dei Lutheran Orthodox Church — 0.3 mi away
- Hay Street United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Friends Meeting — 0.9 mi away
- Haymount United Methodist Church — 2.1 mi away
- Good Hope Missionary Church — 2.2 mi away
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