Old Friendship African Methodist Episcopal Church
Old Friendship African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in AL 36373.
AL, 36373Old Friendship African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,361 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Alabama — 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 Old Friendship African Methodist Episcopal Church
It takes 6.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.3%
- Diabetes: 20.9%
- Obesity: 43.0%
- Social Isolation: 35.1%
- Poverty Rate: 24.2% (14.8–33.5%)
- Food Insecurity: 24.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Old Friendship African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Poplar Springs Church — 0.6 mi away
- Greater Friendship A.M.E. Church — 1.7 mi away in Shorterville, AL
- Pentecostal Gospel Church — 1.8 mi away in Abbeville, AL
- Fort Gaines United Methodist Church — 1.9 mi away in Fort Gaines, GA
- Fort Gaines Baptist Church — 2 mi away in Fort Gaines, GA
- Fort Gaines Presbyterian Church — 2 mi away in Fort Gaines, GA
- Springfield Missionary Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away in Fort Gaines, GA
- First Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away
- Shorterville Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away
- Aimwell Church — 3.3 mi away in Fort Gaines, GA
More Methodist churches nearby
- Fort Gaines United Methodist Church — 1.9 mi away in Fort Gaines, GA
- Liberty Methodist Church — 8.8 mi away in Abbeville, AL
- Abbeville Methodist Church — 10.1 mi away in Abbeville, AL
- Saint John AME Church — 10.8 mi away in Abbeville, AL
- White Oak United Methodist Church — 13.4 mi away in Eufaula, AL