St. Paul A.M.E. Zion Church

St. Paul A.M.E. Zion Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 437 S Center St in Hickory, NC 28602-3522. It is one of 165 churches in Hickory.

437 S Center St, Hickory, NC, 28602-3522

Phone: (828) 327-0623 · Website: https://amezion.org/locations/page/66/

St. Paul A.M.E. Zion Church 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 St. Paul A.M.E. Zion Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,100 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: 47.1% (32.5–62.0%)
  • Obesity: 47.0%
  • Poverty Rate: 32.2% (23.8–40.6%)
  • Food Insecurity: 31.7%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.5%
  • Diabetes: 19.1%
  • Social Isolation: 35.3%
  • Housing Insecurity: 22.5%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.3%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.7%
  • Depression: 25.5%
  • Transportation Barriers: 16.1%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.9%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.7% (9.1–20.3%)
  • Unemployment: 6.3% (2.4–10.2%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

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