New Prospect AME Church
New Prospect AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church in Blakely, GA 39823. It is one of 62 churches in Blakely, and one of 2 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
Blakely, GA, 39823New Prospect AME Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,414 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Georgia — 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 Prospect AME Church
It takes 4.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Child Poverty: 48.3% (30.5–66.1%)
- Diabetes: 18.6%
- Social Isolation: 38.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.2%
- Food Insecurity: 24.2%
- Obesity: 39.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.8%
- Poverty Rate: 18.3% (11.3–25.2%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.2% (8.9–19.6%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.0%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near New Prospect AME Church
- Friendship Missionary Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Saint Pauls Church — 1.5 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 2.3 mi away
- Abundant Life Ministries — 2.4 mi away
- Mount Ararat Church — 2.4 mi away
- New Zion Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
- Jerusalem A.M.E. Church — 2.8 mi away
- Church of God — 3 mi away
- Southside Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
- Zion Watch Church — 3.2 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Westview United Methodist Church — 3.3 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 3.7 mi away
- Wesley Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 4 mi away
- Ebenezer AME Church — 7 mi away
- Centerville Methodist Church — 7 mi away