Greater Saint Pauls Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
Greater Saint Pauls Christian Methodist Episcopal Church is a church in Bessemer, AL 35020. It is one of 167 churches in Bessemer.
Bessemer, AL, 35020Website: http://gspcme.com
Greater Saint Pauls Christian Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,333 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Alabama — 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 Greater Saint Pauls Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand 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: 49.2%
- Food Insecurity: 45.5%
- Social Isolation: 42.3%
- Poverty Rate: 39.2% (21.9–56.5%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 30.6%
- Diabetes: 25.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.7% (7.3–24.1%)
- Unemployment: 9.8% (3.2–16.8%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Bessemer city is served by 71 churches — about one congregation for every 425 residents.
Churches near Greater Saint Pauls Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
- Greenleaf Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Pettys African Methodist Episcopal Zion Chapel — 0.1 mi away
- New Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Zion Life — 0.2 mi away
- Canaan Baptist Church Number 2 — 0.2 mi away
- Genesis United Apostolic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Galilee Missionary Baptist Church of Bessemer — 0.3 mi away
- Morning Star United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Life Interfaith Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- West Side Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Pettys African Methodist Episcopal Zion Chapel — 0.1 mi away
- Morning Star United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Allen Temple African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Porters Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.9 mi away
- First United Methodist Church of Bessemer — 1 mi away