St. John's AME Church
St. John's AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 545 E Bute St in Norfolk, VA 23510-2803. It is one of 339 churches in Norfolk, and one of 2 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
545 E Bute St, Norfolk, VA, 23510-2803Phone: (757) 625-2713 · Website: https://www.stjohnsnorfolk.org/
St. John's AME 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 St. John's AME Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 54.7%
- Obesity: 52.6%
- Food Insecurity: 47.7%
- Poverty Rate: 45.7%
- Social Isolation: 43.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 35.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 30.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 26.9%
- Diabetes: 20.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.1% (13.2–22.0%)
- Unemployment: 10.2% (3.6–16.9%)
- Depression: 24.5%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St. John's AME Church
- Christ Pentecostal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Philadelphia Fellowship (Baptist) — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Queen Street Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Metropolitan Zion Church — 0.2 mi away
- Freemason Street Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Basilica of St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception — 0.3 mi away
- Garden of Prayer Temple — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Pauls Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Calvary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint Paul CME — 0.4 mi away
- Epworth United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Ghent United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Union Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1 mi away
- Colonial Avenue United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away