New Jersey African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

New Jersey African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is a African Methodist Episcopal Zion church in Lexington, NC 27292. It is one of 188 churches in Lexington.

Lexington, NC, 27292

New Jersey African Methodist Episcopal 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.

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The community around New Jersey African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.

  • Obesity: 37.3%
  • Social Isolation: 31.8%
  • Depression: 26.4%
  • Child Poverty: 22.6% (5.3–41.0%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.4%
  • Food Insecurity: 17.0%
  • Diabetes: 13.6%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.9% (7.4–16.5%)
  • Unemployment: 7.2% (1.7–12.8%)

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

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