Smith - Thompson Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church
Smith - Thompson Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church at 169-03 107th Avenue in New York, NY 11433. It is one of 3,431 churches in New York, and one of 68 Methodist congregations in the city.
169-03 107th Avenue, New York, NY, 11433Smith - Thompson Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 943 congregations of the Methodist family gather across New York — 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 Smith - Thompson Memorial African Methodist Episcopal 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 adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third have no one they feel they can count on. That is 2,800 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: 44.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 38.9%
- Food Insecurity: 38.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 30.6%
- Unemployment: 12.7% (5.5–19.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.3%
- Diabetes: 16.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
New York city is served by 2,102 churches — about one congregation for every 4,102 residents.
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- Community Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Community Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away in Jamaica, NY
- Power of GOD Cathedral — 0.2 mi away
- Vital Church NYC — 0.2 mi away in Jamaica, NY
- Rose of Sharon Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away in Jamaica, NY
- Amity Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
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- Calvary African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.3 mi away
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- First United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away in Jamaica, NY
- Brooks Memorial Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away