Smith Metropolitan AME Zion Church
Smith Metropolitan AME Zion Church is a African Methodist Episcopal Zion church at 124 Smith Street in Poughkeepsie, NY 12601. It is one of 81 churches in Poughkeepsie.
124 Smith Street, Poughkeepsie, NY, 12601Website: https://smithmetropk.org/
Smith Metropolitan AME Zion 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 Metropolitan AME Zion 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 2,300 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.
- Food Insecurity: 34.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 29.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.9%
- Unemployment: 13.8% (4.4–23.1%)
- Social Isolation: 39.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.2%
- Poverty Rate: 27.9% (18.4–37.5%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.4%
- Obesity: 39.1%
- Diabetes: 14.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Poughkeepsie city is served by 25 churches — about one congregation for every 1,268 residents.
Churches near Smith Metropolitan AME Zion Church
- Saint Paul's Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Beulah Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First German Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Triumphant Apostolic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mission Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Congregational United Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Church of Saint Mary's — 0.6 mi away
- Living Water Church — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 2.6 mi away in Highland, NY
- Highland United Methodist Church — 2.6 mi away in Highland, NY
- Poughkeepsie United Methodist Church — 2.7 mi away
- Pleasant Valley United Methodist — 5.5 mi away in Pleasant Valley, NY
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