Saint Luke African Methodist Episcopal Church
Saint Luke African Methodist Episcopal Church is a church in Newark, NJ 07114. It is one of 434 churches in Newark.
Newark, NJ, 07114Saint Luke African Methodist Episcopal 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 Saint Luke African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. About a third of adults are worried about keeping the housing they have, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,300 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 39.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 31.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.6%
- Unemployment: 14.8% (5.4–24.2%)
- Social Isolation: 38.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.3%
- Poverty Rate: 29.8% (17.6–42.1%)
- Transportation Barriers: 19.0%
- Diabetes: 17.3%
- Obesity: 38.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.1% (4.5–21.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Newark city is served by 139 churches — about one congregation for every 2,211 residents.
Churches near Saint Luke African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Bethesda GardenTemple Church — 0.1 mi away
- Hopewell Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- The Universal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Ministerio Bethel Internacional — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia De Dios — 0.1 mi away
- Union Gospel Tabernacle — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Mount Moriah Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Columba's Church — 0.2 mi away
- The Temple of Restoration — 0.2 mi away
- House of Prayer Ministries International — 0.2 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Ghana Emmanuel Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- St James A.M.E. Church — 0.6 mi away
- Israel Memorial AME church — 0.6 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Saint Matthew's Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away