St James AME Church
St James AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 5020 Ramey Avenue in Fort Worth, TX 76105. It is one of 1,178 churches in Fort Worth, and one of 2 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
5020 Ramey Avenue, Fort Worth, TX, 76105St James AME Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,579 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Texas — 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 St James 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 half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Obesity: 46.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 35.4% (25.9–44.9%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 30.9%
- Diabetes: 21.7%
- Poverty Rate: 30.0% (18.0–42.0%)
- Unemployment: 10.5% (1.9–19.1%)
- Child Poverty: 29.2% (13.0–45.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Fort Worth city is served by 664 churches — about one congregation for every 1,300 residents.
Churches near St James AME Church
- Peaceful Rest Missionary Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Shining Light Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Eleazar Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Good Shepherd Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Precious Cornerstone — 0.2 mi away
- Power of God Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Morning Star Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Carter Temple of New Jerusalem — 0.2 mi away
- 12 Gates Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Covenant Church — 0.2 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- McMillan United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- El Buen Samaritano United Methodist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Handley United Methodist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Grace Methodist Church — 2 mi away
- Polytechnic United Methodist Church — 2 mi away