Saint Matthew AME Church
Saint Matthew AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 336 Oakwood Ave in Orange, NJ 07050-3284. It is one of 43 churches in Orange.
We are a bible-believing church committed to Kingdom building in Worship, Fellowship, Service, Outreach, Discipleship, Stewardship, and Radical Hospitality.
Saint Matthew has been a house of worship and a pillar in the community for over 80 years, serving the Oranges, Essex County, and the broader New Jersey community.
Serving since 1942 · Part of First Episcopal District
336 Oakwood Ave, Orange, NJ, 07050-3284Service times
- Sunday 9am
Phone: (973) 678-1217 · Website: https://www.stmatthewame.org/
Saint Matthew 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 Matthew AME Church
- Food Distribution
- Health & Wellness Ministry
- Church School
- Nutrition Class
- Exercise & Spiritual Movement
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The community around Saint Matthew 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 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly a quarter of adults are worried about keeping the housing they have. That is 2,700 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: 31.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.4%
- Social Isolation: 38.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.2%
- Diabetes: 15.8%
- Unemployment: 8.0% (2.0–14.1%)
- Poverty Rate: 17.6% (8.0–27.1%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.0% (4.2–19.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Saint Matthew AME Church
- United Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away in East Orange, NJ
- St. Paul's AME Church — 0.2 mi away in East Orange, NJ
- PIWC Orange — 0.3 mi away
- Fresh Oil Fellowship Ministries — 0.3 mi away in East Orange, NJ
- Living Water Christian Church Center — 0.3 mi away in East Orange, NJ
- Union Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Streams of Joy New Jersey — 0.4 mi away in East Orange, NJ
- Saints of God Mission - Soulwinners Glorious Assembly — 0.4 mi away in East Orange, NJ
- Christ Embassy Orange New Jersey — 0.4 mi away in East Orange, NJ
- The Seventh-day Adventist Church of the Oranges — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.9 mi away in East Orange, NJ
- R.I.S.E Church — 0.9 mi away in East Orange, NJ
- Methodist Church of Orange — 1.1 mi away
- Saint Marks African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.4 mi away in East Orange, NJ
- Park Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.5 mi away in East Orange, NJ