First Saint Mark African Methodist Episcopal Church
First Saint Mark African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Atlanta, GA 30318. It is one of 940 churches in Atlanta, and one of 44 Methodist congregations in the city.
Atlanta, GA, 30318First Saint Mark African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,414 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Georgia — 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.
Find First Saint Mark African Methodist Episcopal Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around First Saint Mark African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,200 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.
- Social Isolation: 43.0%
- Food Insecurity: 38.8%
- Poverty Rate: 33.2% (20.2–46.4%)
- Housing Insecurity: 30.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.4%
- Diabetes: 17.1%
- Obesity: 39.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.3% (6.5–16.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.
Atlanta city is served by 310 churches — about one congregation for every 1,580 residents.
Churches near First Saint Mark African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Pilgrim Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- One Step Of Faith Outreach Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- New Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Apostolic Faith Church — 0.3 mi away
- Redeemer Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Springfield Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Lindsey Street Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Amazing Grace Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Life Covenant Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater New Hope Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Centenary United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Central United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Tenth Street Underwood Memorial United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- New Spirit United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Georgia Oliver Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away