First African Methodist Church
First African Methodist Church is a church at 504 North Church Street in Spartanburg, SC 29303. It is one of 269 churches in Spartanburg.
504 North Church Street, Spartanburg, SC, 29303Phone: +18645863333
First African Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 853 congregations of the Methodist family gather across South Carolina — 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 First African Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line, 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 the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Poverty Rate: 46.3% (31.2–61.3%)
- Social Isolation: 41.1%
- Food Insecurity: 39.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.1%
- Obesity: 41.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.7%
- Depression: 28.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.2% (14.2–24.3%)
- Diabetes: 15.2%
- Unemployment: 9.7% (2.5–16.9%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Spartanburg city is served by 75 churches — about one congregation for every 514 residents.
Churches near First African Methodist Church
- Second Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- The Gathering Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church Builders Tabernacle — 0.3 mi away
- Grace Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- The Bridge at Green Street — 0.4 mi away
- Cumming Street Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church — 0.5 mi away
- Truth Chapel World Evangelism — 0.5 mi away
- The Northside Church — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Second Trinity Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Central United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.8 mi away
- Smith Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.9 mi away
- Bethel United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
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