Providence African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Providence African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is a African Methodist Episcopal Zion church at 1141 Mount Avenue in Portsmouth, VA 23707. It is one of 213 churches in Portsmouth, and one of 2 African Methodist Episcopal Zion congregations in the city.
1141 Mount Avenue, Portsmouth, VA, 23707Website: http://providenceamez.com
Providence 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 Providence 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: 48.3%
- Social Isolation: 42.0%
- Food Insecurity: 38.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 29.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.5%
- Diabetes: 20.6%
- Poverty Rate: 28.1% (15.2–41.1%)
- Transportation Barriers: 20.5%
- Unemployment: 8.3% (1.8–15.0%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.0%
- Depression: 23.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.0% (10.0–16.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Portsmouth city is served by 119 churches — about one congregation for every 818 residents.
Churches near Providence African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
- Mount Hermon Baptist Temple — 0.1 mi away
- Chosen Generation Worship Center — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Nebo Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Matthew Church of Christ Holiness — 0.2 mi away
- One Love Restoration Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Celestial Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Sinai Family Life Christian Center — 0.3 mi away
- Jerusalem Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
- NFBCT Portsmouth — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Bethel Reformed Zion United Apostolic Church — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Cottage Place Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- The Great Awakening United Church of Christ — 1 mi away
- Broad Street United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Crossroads United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Park View Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.3 mi away
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