Ebenezer AME Church
Ebenezer AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 32 N Academy Ave in Glenolden, PA 19036-1212. It is one of 8 churches in Glenolden.
From its origin in 1826 until 1829 members held their services in various homes. In 1829, thirty or more families of “free persons of color” procured a site on Central Avenue and erected a building for public worship.
Serving since 1826 · Part of First Episcopal District
32 N Academy Ave, Glenolden, PA, 19036-1212Service times
- Sunday 10am · Worship
Phone: (610) 461-2779 · Website: https://ebenezeramechurch.com/
Ebenezer AME 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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Latest from Ebenezer AME Church of Rahway's YouTube channel: Sunday Service - September 20, 2026 (all videos).
The community around Ebenezer AME Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and about 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is 2,200 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.
- Depression: 23.9%
- Unemployment: 7.4% (2.8–11.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Ebenezer AME Church
- Evangel Assembly of God — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Oakeola — 0.2 mi away
- Glenolden Church — 0.4 mi away
- Glenolden First Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Glenolden Congregational Church — 0.5 mi away
- St. Joseph Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away in Collingdale, PA
- St. George Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
- Freedom Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Collingdale — 0.8 mi away in Collingdale, PA
- Grace Reformed Episcopal Church — 0.8 mi away in Collingdale, PA
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