Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church
Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 236 East 11th Street in Erie, PA 16503. It is one of 205 churches in Erie.
236 East 11th Street, Erie, PA, 16503Saint James African Methodist Episcopal 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 Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 82.0%
- Obesity: 46.7%
- Poverty Rate: 45.4% (31.2–59.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.3%
- Diabetes: 17.8%
- Unemployment: 11.0% (2.3–20.2%)
- Depression: 24.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.0%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Erie city is served by 103 churches — about one congregation for every 920 residents.
Churches near Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Miracle Temple Church of God In Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Solomon's Porch Apostolic Assembly — 0.1 mi away
- Community Missionary Baptist — 0.1 mi away
- New Life and Spirit Revival Center — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Pentecostal La Shekina De Jehová Inc — 0.2 mi away
- Urban Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia De Dios Pentecostal M.I. Renacer — 0.2 mi away
- Family Worship Center — 0.2 mi away
- Abundant Life Ministries Church — 0.3 mi away
- Field of Dreams Harvest Ministries — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Simpson United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- A United Methodist Community — 0.9 mi away
- Glenwood United Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away