Saint John AME Church
Saint John AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church in Abbeville, AL 36310. It is one of 41 churches in Abbeville.
Abbeville, AL, 36310Saint John AME 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 Saint John AME Church
It takes 3.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and 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. 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.
- Obesity: 45.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.9%
- Food Insecurity: 28.6%
- Diabetes: 21.7%
- Social Isolation: 36.5%
- Poverty Rate: 22.2% (14.4–30.0%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.2%
- Unemployment: 8.6% (2.9–14.3%)
- Child Poverty: 28.9% (10.2–47.6%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Abbeville city is served by 6 churches — about one congregation for every 442 residents.
Churches near Saint John AME Church
- New Mount Zion Free Will Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Abbeville Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Abbeville Memorial Church of God — 1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Lighthouse Community Church — 1.1 mi away
- St Peter Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Abbeville First Assembly of God — 1.4 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Hickory Grove Church — 2.4 mi away
- The Most Holy Church — 2.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Abbeville Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Liberty Methodist Church — 8.1 mi away
- Center United Methodist Church — 8.4 mi away in Newville, AL
- Edwin United Methodist Church — 9 mi away
- Clopton United Methodist Church — 10 mi away