First African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

First African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is a African Methodist Episcopal Zion church in Columbus, OH 43205. It is one of 1,054 churches in Columbus.

Columbus, OH, 43205

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First 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 First African Methodist Episcopal 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. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is two thousand 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: 39.5%
  • Depression: 26.4%
  • Food Insecurity: 17.6%
  • Poverty Rate: 16.4% (10.0–22.7%)
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.6%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Columbus city is served by 545 churches — about one congregation for every 1,492 residents.

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