First A.M.E. Zion Church
First A.M.E. Zion Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 4304 N Vancouver Ave in Portland, OR 97217-2940. It is one of 646 churches in Portland.
We strive to be a church that transforms the world around us with the love of God.
First AME Zion Church in Portland, OR is the oldest Black church north of San Francisco.
4304 N Vancouver Ave, Portland, OR, 97217-2940Service times
- Sunday, Saturday 6pm · pm267-807-9605 Passcode 689706038 SERVICEWorship Service
- Sunday, Saturday 10am · pm267-807-9605 Passcode 689706038 SERVICEWorship Service
Phone: (503) 206-4135 · Website: https://www.firstamezchurchpdx.org/
First A.M.E. Zion Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 151 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Oregon — 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 First A.M.E. Zion Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults here carry depression. About 1 in 5 the people here live below the poverty line, and about 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is 2,400 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Depression: 32.6%
- Poverty Rate: 19.6% (12.6–26.6%)
- Unemployment: 7.5% (2.7–12.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First A.M.E. Zion Church
- Powerhouse Temple Church — 0.1 mi away
- Community Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Berean Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Grace City Portland — 0.3 mi away
- Bethesda Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Hughes Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Hope Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- House of Prayer for All Nations — 0.3 mi away
- Mallory Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Portland Covenant Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Hughes Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Woodlawn Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Emmaus Church — 1.5 mi away
- Fremont United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Wilshire United Methodist Church — 2.2 mi away