Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church
Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Newport News, VA 23607. It is one of 233 churches in Newport News, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
Newport News, VA, 23607Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 956 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Virginia — 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 Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 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 of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Obesity: 52.4%
- Social Isolation: 40.2%
- Food Insecurity: 38.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 28.9%
- Diabetes: 23.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.7%
- Unemployment: 14.0% (6.7–21.3%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.6%
- Child Poverty: 30.5% (12.1–48.9%)
- Poverty Rate: 29.8% (18.5–41.0%)
- Transportation Barriers: 19.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Newport News city is served by 83 churches — about one congregation for every 2,230 residents.
Churches near Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Church of the Lord Jesus — 0.1 mi away
- Messiah Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Providence Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Shalom Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Vision Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Rising Star Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Wesley Grove United Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Walters Temple African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.9 mi away
- Greater Walters African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.9 mi away
- Aldersgate United Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away in Hampton, VA
- Noland Memorial United Methodist Church — 2.1 mi away
- Saint James United Methodist Church — 2.7 mi away in Hampton, VA
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