Zion Church

Zion Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 256 Columbia Street in Chester, SC 29706. It is one of 85 churches in Chester.

256 Columbia Street, Chester, SC, 29706

Phone: (704) 631-2172

Shares a ministry location with Cedar Grove AME Zion Church.

Zion Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 898 congregations of the Methodist family gather across South Carolina — 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 The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church's YouTube channel: Moral Monday DC August 3, 2026: Calling the Nation to the Table of Democracy and Vision Voting (all videos).

The community around Zion Church

It takes 2.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 7 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. A scattered parish is still a parish.

Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.

  • Obesity: 38.0%
  • Social Isolation: 31.8%
  • Food Insecurity: 16.6%
  • Diabetes: 13.5%

Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

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