St James A.M.E. Church
St James A.M.E. Church is a Methodist church in Newark, NJ 07102. It is one of 434 churches in Newark, and one of 5 Methodist congregations in the city.
Newark, NJ, 07102St James A.M.E. 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 St James A.M.E. Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,300 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.
- Child Poverty: 76.1%
- Food Insecurity: 39.9%
- Poverty Rate: 33.2% (21.3–45.0%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 31.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.1%
- Diabetes: 19.3%
- Social Isolation: 38.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.8%
- Unemployment: 10.6% (3.0–18.2%)
- Obesity: 39.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Newark city is served by 139 churches — about one congregation for every 2,211 residents.
Churches near St James A.M.E. Church
- Israel Memorial AME church — 0.1 mi away
- The Sanctuary USA — 0.1 mi away
- St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church — 0.1 mi away
- St Mary's Abbey Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Salem Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Metropolitan Baptist church — 0.2 mi away
- Wells Cathedral Church — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Universal Aurora — 0.3 mi away
- Grace Church — 0.4 mi away
- Abyssinian Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Israel Memorial AME church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Luke African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Trinity Union African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away
- Ghana Emmanuel Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Saint Matthew's Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away