St. Stephen AME Church
St. Stephen AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 705 South Kirkman Street in Liberty, NC 27298. It is one of 39 churches in Liberty.
705 South Kirkman Street, Liberty, NC, 27298St. Stephen AME 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 St. Stephen AME Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 43.3%
- Social Isolation: 33.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.9%
- Food Insecurity: 22.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.1% (10.7–27.6%)
- Diabetes: 16.2%
- Unemployment: 9.4% (4.7–14.1%)
- Depression: 26.7%
- Child Poverty: 23.7% (9.3–38.1%)
- Poverty Rate: 18.0% (10.4–25.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 16.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St. Stephen AME Church
- Lewis Grove Holiness Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church Of God Of Prophecy — 0.3 mi away
- Edward's Grove Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bethany Church — 0.6 mi away in Staley, NC
- New Life Community Church — 0.6 mi away
- First United Church Of Christ — 0.7 mi away
- Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.8 mi away
- New Day Ministries — 0.8 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Olivers Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church — 2.9 mi away in Staley, NC
- Shiloh United Methodist Church — 5.2 mi away
- Julian United Methodist Church — 6 mi away in Julian, NC
- Pleasant Union Church — 6.2 mi away
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