Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church
Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church at 501 Dinwiddie Street in Norfolk, VA 23523. It is one of 339 churches in Norfolk, and one of 21 Methodist congregations in the city.
501 Dinwiddie Street, Norfolk, VA, 23523Website: http://www.newsaintjamesame.com/donate/
Saint James African Methodist Episcopal 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 Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within about a mile of this church, 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 nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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: 54.2%
- Child Poverty: 51.9% (36.0–67.8%)
- Social Isolation: 41.7%
- Food Insecurity: 41.5%
- Poverty Rate: 37.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 31.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.2%
- Diabetes: 24.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Norfolk city is served by 176 churches — about one congregation for every 1,346 residents.
Churches near Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church
- House of Prayer For All People — 0.1 mi away
- Antioch Baptist — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Mount Zion Community Church — 0.1 mi away
- The Breaking of Day Ministries Church — 0.1 mi away
- Phillippi Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Burning Bush Worship Center — 0.1 mi away
- United Mission Holiness Church — 0.1 mi away
- Recovery Church Movement — 0.1 mi away
- Faithway Apostolic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Abundant Life Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Hood Chapel African Methodist — 0.3 mi away
- Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.1 mi away
- Monumental United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away in Portsmouth, VA
- Central Methodist Episcopal Church (former) — 1.2 mi away in Portsmouth, VA
- St. John's AME Church — 1.3 mi away