John Wesley AME Zion Church
John Wesley AME Zion Church is a African Methodist Episcopal Zion church in Winston-Salem, NC 27105. It is one of 393 churches in Winston-Salem, and one of 2 African Methodist Episcopal Zion congregations in the city.
Winston-Salem, NC, 27105John Wesley AME 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 John Wesley AME Zion Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 58.9%
- Food Insecurity: 53.9%
- Poverty Rate: 49.8% (33.0–66.5%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 43.0%
- Social Isolation: 40.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 38.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 31.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 27.9%
- Diabetes: 24.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.8%
- Unemployment: 16.6% (4.4–28.8%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.2%
- Depression: 24.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.3% (8.1–18.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Winston-Salem city is served by 125 churches — about one congregation for every 1,877 residents.
Churches near John Wesley AME Zion Church
- Prince of Peace Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Life Change Trabsformations — 0.1 mi away
- Churches of Christ Holiness — 0.2 mi away
- Mt Calvary Holy Church — 0.2 mi away
- Love, Acceptance, & Forgiveness Ministry — 0.2 mi away
- Hatt Church — 0.3 mi away
- Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Sinai Full Gospel Deliverance Center — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Paul Apostolic Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Temple Holiness Apostolic Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint Paul United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Hanes Memorial CME Church — 1.3 mi away
- Goler Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church — 1.7 mi away
- Saints Home United Methodist — 2.1 mi away
- Centenary United Methodist Church — 2.3 mi away
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