Greater St Matthew AME Church
Greater St Matthew AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 1909 W 24th St in Lorain, OH 44052-4254. It is one of 119 churches in Lorain.
We believe that unless souls are saved nothing is saved, so therefore we are determined, dedicated and directed to go into the highways and biways and compell men, women, boys and girls to make Jesus their choice.
It is the oldest predominantly African American congregation in the city of Lorain, Ohio. Founded in 1905.
Part of Third Episcopal District
1909 W 24th St, Lorain, OH, 44052-4254Phone: (440) 282-9415 · Website: http://netministries.org/see/churches/ch04302?frame=n
Greater St Matthew AME 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.
Ministries at Greater St Matthew AME Church
- Food Baskets
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The community around Greater St Matthew AME Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 7 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 76.4%
- Obesity: 48.6%
- Poverty Rate: 47.4%
- Food Insecurity: 41.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 29.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.5%
- Diabetes: 22.9%
- Social Isolation: 38.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.5%
- Unemployment: 9.6% (3.2–15.9%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.8%
- Depression: 26.7%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Greater St Matthew AME Church
- West Side Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Creation Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Body Of Christ Church — 0.2 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Great Lakes Church — 0.3 mi away
- Grace Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- Full Gospel Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Apostles Doctrine Church — 0.4 mi away
- RCCG Jesus House Lorain — 0.4 mi away
- Sts. Cyril and Methodius Orthodox Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Lorain Lighthouse United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Christ United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Faith United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Lorain Lighthouse United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away