Saint John African Methodist Episcopal Church
Saint John African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Union Springs, AL 36089. It is one of 74 churches in Union Springs, and one of 6 Methodist congregations in the city.
Union Springs, AL, 36089Saint John African 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 Saint John African Methodist Episcopal Church
It takes 3.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and more than half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half 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: 56.2%
- Food Insecurity: 54.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 46.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 37.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 31.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 27.9%
- Diabetes: 27.3%
- Social Isolation: 40.0%
- Poverty Rate: 27.5% (13.1–42.0%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.8% (5.4–20.3%)
- Unemployment: 6.8% (0.0–16.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Saint John African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Mount Sinai Church — 0.3 mi away
- Kingdom Hall Church — 1.6 mi away
- Union Hill Church — 2 mi away
- Mount Zion Church — 2.3 mi away
- Old Pine Grove Church — 2.3 mi away
- Greater Pleasant Grove Church — 3.1 mi away
- REACH Church — 3.1 mi away
- Mount Asia Church — 3.4 mi away
- Waymans African Methodist Episcopal Chapel — 3.9 mi away
- Faith Independent Baptist Church — 4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Waymans African Methodist Episcopal Chapel — 3.9 mi away
- Hardaway African Methodist Episcopal Church — 4.1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 4.1 mi away
- Brown Grove United Methodist Church — 5.1 mi away
- Saint Luke AME Church — 8.9 mi away
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