New Wesley AME Zion Church
New Wesley AME Zion Church is a African Methodist Episcopal Zion church in Camden, NJ 08103. It is one of 172 churches in Camden, and one of 2 African Methodist Episcopal Zion congregations in the city.
Camden, NJ, 08103New Wesley AME Zion Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 515 congregations of the Methodist family gather across New Jersey — 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 New Wesley AME Zion Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,200 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.
- Food Insecurity: 51.3%
- Social Isolation: 40.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 39.2%
- Poverty Rate: 38.9% (25.5–52.3%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 29.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 28.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 26.1%
- Diabetes: 19.7%
- Unemployment: 19.1% (11.5–26.7%)
- Obesity: 43.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.5% (2.1–20.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Camden city is served by 139 churches — about one congregation for every 516 residents.
Churches near New Wesley AME Zion Church
- Iglesia Pentecostal Concilio Movimiento Avivamiento Mundial — 0.1 mi away
- St. Luke U.A.M.E. Church — 0.1 mi away
- Genesis New Beginning In Christ COGIC — 0.1 mi away
- Gist Liberty FBH Church — 0.1 mi away
- Rejuvenate Your Life Through Christ Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- Faith Tabernacle Church of the Living God — 0.2 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Saint James Apostolic Church of Camden — 0.2 mi away
- New Fellowship UAME Church — 0.2 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Macedonia Ame Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Hope AME — 0.8 mi away
- Parkside United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Bethel AME Church — 1 mi away
- Ferry Avenue United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away