Greater St Marks AME Church
Greater St Marks AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 1116 N Highway 79B in Thornton, AR 71766.
1116 N Highway 79B, Thornton, AR, 71766Phone: (870) 352-3186 · Website: https://www.ame-church.com
Greater St Marks AME Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 543 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Arkansas — 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 St Marks AME Church
It takes 5.5 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 of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third have no one they feel they can count on. 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: 42.1%
- Social Isolation: 35.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.9%
- Food Insecurity: 21.8%
- Diabetes: 16.0%
- Unemployment: 10.1% (4.4–15.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 17.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Greater St Marks AME Church
- Temperance Hill Church — 2.9 mi away in Bearden, AR
- New Bethel Church — 3.4 mi away in Bearden, AR
- Hopeville Church — 3.5 mi away in Bearden, AR
- United Pentecostal Church — 3.5 mi away in Fordyce, AR
- Pilgrims Rest Church — 3.8 mi away in Fordyce, AR
- Enon Church — 3.8 mi away in Fordyce, AR
- Chambersville Church — 3.9 mi away in Fordyce, AR
- First Assembly of God Church — 4.1 mi away in Fordyce, AR
- Beech Grove Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away in Fordyce, AR
- Stony Point Church — 4.3 mi away in Fordyce, AR
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church — 5.1 mi away in Fordyce, AR
- Wagnon Methodist Church — 14 mi away
- Princeton Methodist Church — 15.9 mi away in Carthage, AR
- Sardis Methodist Church — 17.9 mi away in Sparkman, AR
- Harrell United Methodist Church — 19.2 mi away in Hampton, AR