Greater Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church
Greater Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church is a church at 141 Cherokee Street in Florence, AL 35630. It is one of 211 churches in Florence.
141 Cherokee Street, Florence, AL, 35630Website: http://www.greatersaintpaulame.org
Greater Saint Paul 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 Greater Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 47.3%
- Poverty Rate: 41.3%
- Food Insecurity: 41.1%
- Child Poverty: 40.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.9%
- Diabetes: 21.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.1% (10.6–29.5%)
- Social Isolation: 38.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.0%
- Depression: 25.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Florence city is served by 74 churches — about one congregation for every 481 residents.
Churches near Greater Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Faith Temple Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Bible Deliverance Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Dwelling Place — 0.3 mi away
- Saint James Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Tennessee Valley Community Church — 0.4 mi away
- Christ Methodist — 0.5 mi away
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Greater Mount Moriah Church — 0.5 mi away
- True North Vineyard Church — 0.5 mi away
- Westside Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Christ Methodist — 0.5 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Oakdale United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away
- North Wood Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Armstead Christian Methodist Episcopal Chapel — 1.5 mi away