Amanah Rush AME Zion Church

Amanah Rush AME Zion Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 554 E Cabarrus St in Raleigh, NC 27601-1962. It is one of 632 churches in Raleigh, and one of 2 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.

At Amanah Rush, we believe in sharing God's love and spreading hope in our community.

Rev. Atlas was appointed to the Rush Metropolitan AME Zion Church in November 2023, and under his leadership, in 2024, Amanah AME Zion and Rush Metropolitan were merged, forming the Amanah Rush AME Zion Church.

554 E Cabarrus St, Raleigh, NC, 27601-1962

Phone: (919) 307-8876 · Website: https://www.amanahrush.org/

Shares a ministry location with Knightdale Baptist Church.

Amanah Rush AME 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 Amanah Rush AME Zion Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and about 1 in 5 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.

  • Social Isolation: 35.2%
  • Depression: 24.1%
  • Food Insecurity: 19.4%
  • Housing Insecurity: 16.1%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.4% (6.6–16.2%)
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.5%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

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