Brighton Rock African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Brighton Rock African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is a African Methodist Episcopal Zion church at 1300 Centre Avenue in Portsmouth, VA 23704. It is one of 213 churches in Portsmouth, and one of 2 African Methodist Episcopal Zion congregations in the city.
At Little Rock A.M.E Zion Church, we aren’t just a congregation; we are a family dedicated to doing life together in the spirit of Christ.
Serving since 1796
1300 Centre Avenue, Portsmouth, VA, 23704Service times
- Sunday 10am
- Sunday, Wednesday 9am · School Bible Study &
- Sunday, Wednesday 12pm · School Bible Study &
- Sunday, Wednesday 7pm · School Bible Study &
Phone: (704) 334-3782 · Website: https://littlerockamezion.org/
Brighton Rock African Methodist Episcopal Zion 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.
Ministries at Brighton Rock African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
- Bread of Life
- Counseling
- Evangelism
- Heaven's Storehouse
- Substance Abuse
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The community around Brighton Rock African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 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 2,100 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: 46.6%
- Social Isolation: 41.4%
- Food Insecurity: 34.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.9%
- Diabetes: 20.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.2%
- Unemployment: 17.3% (4.3–30.3%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.1%
- Poverty Rate: 22.7% (11.5–34.0%)
- Transportation Barriers: 17.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.0% (3.4–20.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Portsmouth city is served by 119 churches — about one congregation for every 818 residents.
Churches near Brighton Rock African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
- First Baptist Church of South Portsmouth — 0.1 mi away
- New Saint Thomas Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Prince of Peace Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Pentecostal Church of Christ Holiness — 0.2 mi away
- Church of God of Prophecy — 0.2 mi away
- Centennial Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Hope Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Mount Portsmouth — 0.4 mi away
- The Village Church of Portsmouth — 0.4 mi away
- New Restoration Kingdom Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Elm Avenue Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Central Methodist Episcopal Church (former) — 1.2 mi away
- Cradock Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Cottage Place Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away
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