Old Ship African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Old Ship African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is a African Methodist Episcopal Zion church in Sandusky, OH 44870. It is one of 80 churches in Sandusky.
Sandusky, OH, 44870Old Ship 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 Old Ship 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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Obesity: 45.6%
- Social Isolation: 37.0%
- Poverty Rate: 23.8% (15.2–32.5%)
- Food Insecurity: 22.7%
- Diabetes: 16.3%
- Depression: 25.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.1% (5.6–16.6%)
- Unemployment: 7.5% (1.2–13.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Sandusky city is served by 30 churches — about one congregation for every 804 residents.
Churches near Old Ship African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
- Greater Faith Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Zion Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
- East Parrish Street Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- First Congregational United Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Calvary Temple — 0.6 mi away
- Peoples Church — 0.6 mi away
- Eagles Nest Church International — 0.6 mi away
- St. Stephen United Church of Christ — 0.8 mi away
- Sandusky Community Church of the Nazarene — 0.8 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Christ Community Global Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Columbus Avenue United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Salem United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away
- United Methodist Church — 7.4 mi away in Huron, OH