Saint Peter African Methodist Epsicopal Church
Saint Peter African Methodist Epsicopal Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church in McGehee, AR 71654. It is one of 24 churches in McGehee.
McGehee, AR, 71654Saint Peter African Methodist Epsicopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 538 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Arkansas — 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 Peter African Methodist Epsicopal Church
It takes 4.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 50.0% (32.1–68.0%)
- Obesity: 47.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.1%
- Food Insecurity: 36.5%
- Poverty Rate: 34.0% (23.4–44.5%)
- Housing Insecurity: 26.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.2%
- Diabetes: 20.3%
- Social Isolation: 38.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.0%
- Depression: 24.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.5%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Saint Peter African Methodist Epsicopal Church
- Evening Star Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Tabernacle of Faith Full Gosepl Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Paul Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church of McGehee — 0.6 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church of McGehee — 0.6 mi away
- First Church of God In Christ — 0.6 mi away
- New Life Ministries Christian Center — 0.6 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Church of the Nazarene — 0.7 mi away
- New Life Ministries Christian Center — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Tillar United Methodist Church — 7.1 mi away in Tillar, AR
- Oak Grove Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 8.7 mi away in Dermott, AR
- United Methodist Church — 10.9 mi away in Arkansas City, AR
- Mount Tabor United Methodist Church — 15.4 mi away in Monticello, AR