Saint James AME Church
Saint James AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 588 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd in Newark, NJ 07102-1214. It is one of 434 churches in Newark, and one of 2 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
588 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Newark, NJ, 07102-1214Phone: (973) 622-1344 · Website: https://experiencesaintjames.com/
Saint James AME 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.
Ministries at Saint James AME Church
- Dance Ministry
- Music Department
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The community around Saint James AME Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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.
- Social Isolation: 32.4%
- Child Poverty: 22.4% (5.4–39.3%)
- Food Insecurity: 18.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.7% (5.8–17.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
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- Orient Church of God — 0.5 mi away in Jersey City, NJ
- Liberty Church Jersey City — 0.6 mi away in Jersey City, NJ
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- Metropolitian African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 1 mi away in Jersey City, NJ
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