Wesley Temple African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Wesley Temple African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is a African Methodist Episcopal Zion church in Akron, OH 44304. It is one of 431 churches in Akron.
Akron, OH, 44304Website: https://wesleytemple.reasonfunding.com/donate
Wesley Temple African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,576 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Ohio — 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 Wesley Temple African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Within about a mile of this church, 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 of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,200 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: 41.0%
- Poverty Rate: 38.8% (27.6–50.0%)
- Food Insecurity: 34.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.2%
- Obesity: 43.9%
- Child Poverty: 34.6% (15.1–54.2%)
- Depression: 30.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.5%
- Unemployment: 10.6% (3.7–17.6%)
- Diabetes: 14.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Akron city is served by 251 churches — about one congregation for every 762 residents.
Churches near Wesley Temple African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
- Holy Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Furnace Street Mission Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- First Congregational Church — 0.3 mi away
- East Market Street United Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Elizabeth Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First United Methodist Church of Akron — 0.4 mi away
- The Remedy Church — 0.5 mi away
- High Street Christian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Burning Bush Christian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Zion Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church of Akron — 0.4 mi away
- Family of Faith United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- North Hill United Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Remember North Hill — 1.6 mi away
- Redeemer United Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away