New Zion AME Zion Church
New Zion AME Zion Church is a African Methodist Episcopal Zion church in Newport, TN 37821. It is one of 88 churches in Newport.
Newport, TN, 37821New Zion AME Zion Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,082 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Tennessee — 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 Zion AME Zion Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 45.2% (29.3–61.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.9%
- Obesity: 41.1%
- Depression: 31.9%
- Poverty Rate: 22.1% (15.9–28.3%)
- Diabetes: 17.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.4%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Newport city is served by 23 churches — about one congregation for every 184 residents.
Churches near New Zion AME Zion Church
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Newport Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Episcopal Church of the Annunciation — 0.1 mi away
- Newport Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Newport Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Hilltop Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Memorial Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Center View Church — 0.6 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Bybee United Methodist Church — 5.8 mi away
- Parrottsville United Methodist Church — 6.4 mi away in Parrottsville, TN
- Fowlers Grove Church — 6.8 mi away
- Belmont Methodist Church — 7.7 mi away in Dandridge, TN