New Jerusalem AME Zion Church
New Jerusalem AME Zion Church is a African Methodist Episcopal Zion church at 219 Locust Street in Steelton, PA 17113. It is one of 21 churches in Steelton.
219 Locust Street, Steelton, PA, 17113Phone: (717) 985-9684
New Jerusalem 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 New Jerusalem AME Zion Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand 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: 40.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.9%
- Poverty Rate: 23.5% (12.3–34.8%)
- Unemployment: 11.7% (5.3–18.2%)
- Depression: 24.5%
- Child Poverty: 22.5% (4.5–40.5%)
- Diabetes: 14.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Steelton borough is served by 13 churches — about one congregation for every 480 residents.
Churches near New Jerusalem AME Zion Church
- St. Johns Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away in Harrisburg, PA
- House Of God, Church Of The Living God, Inc — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia De Dios — 0.1 mi away
- Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Grace Church — 0.3 mi away
- Turner Memorial Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint James Church — 0.4 mi away
- Steelton Mennonite Church — 0.4 mi away
- The First Baptist Church of Steelton — 0.5 mi away in Harrisburg, PA
- Saint Peters Church — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Grace Church — 0.3 mi away
- Centenary United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away in Swatara Twp, PA
- Neidig Church — 1.3 mi away
- Kingdom Life Christian Center — 1.4 mi away in Harrisburg, PA
- Baughman Church — 1.5 mi away in New Cumberland, PA
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