Saint John African Methodist Episcopal Church
Saint John African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Memphis, TN 38108. It is one of 1,547 churches in Memphis, and one of 85 Methodist congregations in the city.
Memphis, TN, 38108Saint John African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,068 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Tennessee — 25,370 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 John African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Obesity: 48.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.8%
- Diabetes: 24.5%
- Unemployment: 14.5% (6.2–22.9%)
- Poverty Rate: 29.6% (16.3–42.9%)
- Depression: 23.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.5% (5.2–21.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Memphis city is served by 1,033 churches — about one congregation for every 596 residents.
Churches near Saint John African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Pleasant View Missionary Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Princeton Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.1 mi away
- Advent Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Trinity All Nations Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Hunter Avenue Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Springdale Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Summerfield Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Corinthian Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Pentecostal Evangelist Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Love Temple Ministries — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Princeton Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.1 mi away
- Featherstone Chapel Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Springdale United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Coopers Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 1.1 mi away
- Watkins Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.2 mi away