Mount Olive African Methodist Episcopal Church
Mount Olive African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Wilmington, NC 28401. It is one of 266 churches in Wilmington, and one of 12 Methodist congregations in the city.
Wilmington, NC, 28401Website: http://mtoliveamechurch2.placeweb.site
Mount Olive African Methodist Episcopal 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 Mount Olive African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third 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: 46.1%
- Food Insecurity: 36.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.9%
- Diabetes: 21.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.6%
- Social Isolation: 37.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.1%
- Unemployment: 8.6% (0.0–18.1%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.5%
- Depression: 23.8%
- Poverty Rate: 17.0% (7.4–26.6%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.4% (4.5–18.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Wilmington city is served by 93 churches — about one congregation for every 1,174 residents.
Churches near Mount Olive African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Soul Saving Station — 0.1 mi away
- Macedonia Fire Baptized Holiness Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Andrews African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.2 mi away
- Healing Waters Holy Temple Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Morning Star Apostolic Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Covenant Holiness Church — 0.3 mi away
- Faith Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Nebo Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of the Good Shepherd — 0.3 mi away
- Kellys Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint Andrews African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.2 mi away
- Kellys Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Luke African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mosaic Faith Community — 0.6 mi away
- Epworth United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
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