Harris Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Harris Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is a African Methodist Episcopal Zion church in Bristol, VA 24201. It is one of 117 churches in Bristol.
Bristol, VA, 24201Harris Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 970 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Virginia — 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 Harris Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, 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 healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 45.5%
- Poverty Rate: 39.1% (27.5–50.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.7%
- Food Insecurity: 28.1%
- Diabetes: 18.7%
- Social Isolation: 34.7%
- Depression: 28.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.4% (11.2–27.5%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.9%
- Unemployment: 9.4% (2.7–16.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 18.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Bristol city is served by 42 churches — about one congregation for every 405 residents.
Churches near Harris Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
- Morning Star Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Anchor Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Hunt Memorial Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Euclid Avenue Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Reynolds Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Annes Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Central Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- John Wesley United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Hunt Memorial Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Reynolds Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- John Wesley United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- State Street United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Anderson Street United Methodist Church — 1 mi away