Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church
Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church at 8401 Cedar Avenue in Cleveland, OH 44106. It is one of 783 churches in Cleveland, and one of 25 Methodist congregations in the city.
8401 Cedar Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 44106Shares a ministry location with Greater New Canaan Baptist Church.
Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,596 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Ohio — 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.
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The community around Saint James African Methodist Episcopal 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 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,100 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.
- Child Poverty: 81.7%
- Obesity: 50.1%
- Food Insecurity: 46.8%
- Poverty Rate: 43.9% (30.1–57.7%)
- Social Isolation: 43.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 32.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 29.7%
- Diabetes: 26.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 23.4%
- Unemployment: 19.9% (5.2–34.6%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Cleveland city is served by 361 churches — about one congregation for every 1,026 residents.
Churches near Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Greater New Canaan Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Antioch Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Liberty Hill Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Euclid Avenue Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Life at Calvary — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Adalbert Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- True Holiness Temple — 0.4 mi away
- University Euclid Church — 0.4 mi away
- Faith Tabernacle UHC — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Allen Temple African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- University Circle United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Greater Avery African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.2 mi away
- Saint Pauls African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 1.3 mi away
- Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 1.3 mi away