Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church
Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Roanoke, VA 24016. It is one of 351 churches in Roanoke, and one of 18 Methodist congregations in the city.
Roanoke, VA, 24016Ebenezer 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 Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 42.8%
- Social Isolation: 38.4%
- Poverty Rate: 27.8% (16.3–39.4%)
- Food Insecurity: 24.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.5%
- Depression: 23.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.0%
- Diabetes: 14.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.4%
- Unemployment: 6.4% (1.9–11.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Roanoke city is served by 141 churches — about one congregation for every 703 residents.
Churches near Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Basilica of St. Andrew — 0.2 mi away
- Ironside Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Hill Street Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Elevation Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greene Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- St Paul United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Belmont United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away