St. James AME Zion Church

St. James AME Zion Church is a African Methodist Episcopal Zion church at 410 West Union Street in Allentown, PA 18102. It is one of 183 churches in Allentown.

410 West Union Street, Allentown, PA, 18102

Phone: (610) 435-0480 · Website: https://stjamesamezionchurch.org/

St. James AME Zion Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,331 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Pennsylvania — 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 St. James AME Zion Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.

  • Obesity: 40.1%
  • Poverty Rate: 28.3% (15.8–40.7%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.1%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.0%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.4% (8.2–22.5%)
  • Depression: 23.1%
  • Unemployment: 7.6% (2.8–12.5%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Allentown city is served by 86 churches — about one congregation for every 1,456 residents.

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