New Saint Matthew African Methodist Episcopal Church
New Saint Matthew African Methodist Episcopal Church is a church in Beckley, WV 25801. It is one of 96 churches in Beckley.
Beckley, WV, 25801Website: https://www.ame-church.com/
New Saint Matthew African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 687 congregations of the Methodist family gather across West 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.
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The community around New Saint Matthew African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 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 about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 48.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.5%
- Poverty Rate: 32.1% (21.0–43.3%)
- Food Insecurity: 29.8%
- Diabetes: 21.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.8%
- Social Isolation: 39.1%
- Depression: 31.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 21.4%
- Child Poverty: 28.5% (9.8–47.2%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Beckley city is served by 44 churches — about one congregation for every 347 residents.
Churches near New Saint Matthew African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Church of God in Christ — 0 mi away
- United Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Paul Baptist Temple — 0.1 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Outreach For Christ Christian — 0.2 mi away
- Mt. Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Holiness Church of Jesus — 0.2 mi away
- First Church of Unconditional Love — 0.3 mi away
- Good Samaritan Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint Marys United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Beckley Community United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Mabscott United Methodist Church — 1.9 mi away in Mabscott, WV
- Beaver United Methodist Church — 2.1 mi away in Beaver, WV
- Perry Memorial United Methodist Church — 5.8 mi away
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