First African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
First African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is a African Methodist Episcopal Zion church in Bluefield, WV 24701. It is one of 82 churches in Bluefield.
Bluefield, WV, 24701Shares a ministry location with First A.M.E. Zion Church.
First African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 689 congregations of the Methodist family gather across West 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 First African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,100 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: 45.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.2%
- Food Insecurity: 26.5%
- Diabetes: 20.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.5%
- Social Isolation: 37.7%
- Depression: 31.4%
- Poverty Rate: 26.6% (15.5–37.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 19.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.2%
- Unemployment: 7.5% (1.1–14.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Bluefield city is served by 40 churches — about one congregation for every 167 residents.
Churches near First African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
- First A.M.E. Zion Church — 0 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- North Side United Holiness Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Refuge Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Immanuel Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Edwards Memorial Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Spoken Word Temple — 0.2 mi away
- First Prebyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Mt Zion Pentecostal Church — 0.2 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Grace United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Raleigh Street Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- John Stewart Memorial Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
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