Mt Zion Porter AME Church
Mt Zion Porter AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church in Washington, TX 77880. It is one of 9 churches in Washington.
Washington, TX, 77880Mt Zion Porter AME Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,558 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Texas — 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 Mt Zion Porter AME Church
It takes 3.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 working-age adults live without health insurance. 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: 40.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.5% (9.0–26.0%)
- Diabetes: 16.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Mt Zion Porter AME Church
- Mercy Seat Church — 1.1 mi away
- Mount Calvary Church — 1.6 mi away
- Friedens Church — 2.7 mi away
- Paul Felder Church — 3.3 mi away
- Goodwill Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away in Brenham, TX
- Mt Pleasant Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away
- Rock Island Church — 5.7 mi away in Hempstead, TX
- St. Holland Missionary Baptist Church — 5.9 mi away in Navasota, TX
- Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church — 6.1 mi away
- Lynn Grove UMC — 6.5 mi away in Navasota, TX
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church — 9.4 mi away in Navasota, TX
- Chappell Hill Methodist Episcopal Church — 10.7 mi away in Chappell Hill, TX
- New Hope United Methodist Church — 14.3 mi away in Waller, TX
- Stoneham United Methodist Church — 14.4 mi away in Navasota, TX
- Milican United Methodist Church — 15.2 mi away in Millican, TX