St Luke AME Church
St Luke AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 117 E Church St in Waco, TX 76704-2607. It is one of 284 churches in Waco, and one of 2 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
It is our desire that the leading of the Holy Spirit draws you. Our prayer is for God to direct your path and work in both your life and ours.
St. Luke African Methodist Episcopal Church in Waco, Tx, began as an evening Sunday School gathering in a small building in what is now Greenwood Cemetery in 1886.
117 E Church St, Waco, TX, 76704-2607Phone: (254) 752-0502 · Website: https://stlukeamewaco.org/history/
St Luke 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.
Ministries at St Luke AME Church
- Church School
- Men’s Ministry
- Prayer Ministry
- Youth Ministry
- Veterans Breakfast Club
- Women’s Ministry
- Worship & Arts
- Christian Education
- Men’s Bible Study
- Women’s Bible Study
- F.A.T. Tuesday
- Faith & Culture Dialogue
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The community around St Luke AME 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 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 54.0% (36.5–71.4%)
- Obesity: 46.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.1%
- Poverty Rate: 36.6% (23.0–50.3%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 25.6% (16.1–35.0%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 24.4%
- Diabetes: 21.5%
- Depression: 23.1%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St Luke AME Church
- New Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Toliver Chapel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Answer Is Christ Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Waco Community Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mt Sinai Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Cumberland Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Adams Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.1 mi away
- St James United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Sparks Memorial United Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away in Bellmead, TX
- Austin Avenue United Methodist Church — 2 mi away