St. James United Methodist Church
St. James United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 213 North Lanford Road in Spartanburg, SC 29301. It is one of 269 churches in Spartanburg, and one of 6 United Methodist congregations in the city.
St. James UMC seeks to be the heart of the Woodland Heights community and beyond. Our ministry is rooted in the greatest commandment, a love of God and of neighbor. Love always involves action. We as individuals are committed to being and making Disciples of Christ for the transformation of the world both locally and across the globe. Even though we come from a variety of backgrounds, we all seek to be the hands and feet of Christ as we worship, pray, grow and serve together.
213 North Lanford Road, Spartanburg, SC, 29301Service times
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 9am
Phone: 864-576-6481 · Website: https://www.stjamesspartanburg.org/
St. James United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 853 congregations of the Methodist family gather across South Carolina — 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.
Ministries at St. James United Methodist Church
- Local and Global Missions
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The community around St. James United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. That is 2,200 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.
- Food Insecurity: 29.5%
- Diabetes: 18.0%
- Obesity: 43.6%
- Social Isolation: 35.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 22.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.4%
- Child Poverty: 24.7% (13.8–38.5%)
- Depression: 23.2%
- Poverty Rate: 21.6% (13.6–29.5%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Spartanburg city is served by 75 churches — about one congregation for every 514 residents.
Churches near St. James United Methodist Church
- Spartanburg Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Communion Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Purpose Place — 0.5 mi away
- Promised Land COGIC — 0.6 mi away
- Word Of Change Ministry — 0.7 mi away
- New Life Christian Fellowship — 0.7 mi away
- Silver Hill Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Real Talk Christian Ministries — 0.8 mi away
- Covenant Presbyterian Church — 0.8 mi away
- House of David — 0.9 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Silver Hill Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Smith Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.6 mi away
- El Bethel United Methodist Church — 2 mi away
- Cornelius United Methodist Church — 2.1 mi away in Roebuck, SC
- Roebuck United Methodist Church — 2.1 mi away in Roebuck, SC
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