Morning Star A. M. E. Zion Church
Morning Star A. M. E. Zion Church is a African Methodist Episcopal Zion church at 411 Boush Street in Roper, NC 27970. It is one of 26 churches in Roper.
411 Boush Street, Roper, NC, 27970Morning Star A. M. E. 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 Morning Star A. M. E. Zion Church
It takes 5.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.1%
- Food Insecurity: 25.6%
- Diabetes: 21.3%
- Unemployment: 13.0% (3.8–22.7%)
- Obesity: 43.8%
- Social Isolation: 33.4%
- Poverty Rate: 25.8% (16.0–35.6%)
- Depression: 23.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Morning Star A. M. E. Zion Church
- Eastern North Carolina Assembly Church — 0.1 mi away
- Union Chapel Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- St. Luke's/St. Anne's Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Roper Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Gospel Train Deliverance Ministries — 0.4 mi away
- Hebron United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Roper Pentecostal Holiness Church — 0.4 mi away
- Christ Holiness Church — 0.6 mi away
- Roper Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Church of Christ — 1 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Roper Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Hebron United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Pleasant Grove Methodist Church — 3.7 mi away
- Mackeys Methodist Church — 4 mi away
- Rehoboth Methodist Church — 6.7 mi away
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