Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is a African Methodist Episcopal Zion church in Perth Amboy, NJ 08861. It is one of 77 churches in Perth Amboy.
Perth Amboy, NJ, 08861Website: http://stjamezion.org
Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 500 congregations of the Methodist family gather across New Jersey — 25,370 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 James African Methodist Episcopal Zion 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. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third of working-age adults live without health insurance. That is 2,600 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: 36.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 33.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 29.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 29.0% (20.9–37.1%)
- Unemployment: 13.8% (8.2–19.4%)
- Obesity: 41.9%
- Social Isolation: 38.6%
- Poverty Rate: 23.0% (14.2–31.8%)
- Diabetes: 16.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.9%
- Child Poverty: 28.0% (13.5–43.4%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Perth Amboy city is served by 36 churches — about one congregation for every 1,534 residents.
Churches near Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
- Holy Trinity Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Pioneer Community SDA Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of Pentecost USA Inc. — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Mary's Roman Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Jesus The King Coptic Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Ministerio Cristiano Remanente Fiel NJ — 0.1 mi away
- Simpson United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Manantial de Vida — 0.2 mi away
- Manatial De Vida — 0.2 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
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- Saint Paul's Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away in New York, NY
- Bethel Church — 1.5 mi away in New York, NY
- Saint Marks United Methodist Church — 2.9 mi away in New York, NY
- Woodbridge United Methodist Church — 3.1 mi away in Woodbridge, NJ
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