Mount Olive AME Church
Mount Olive AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church in Attapulgus, GA 39815. It is one of 16 churches in Attapulgus, and one of 2 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
Attapulgus, GA, 39815Mount Olive AME 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.
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The community around Mount Olive AME Church
It takes 4.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third 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.
- Child Poverty: 41.8% (23.5–60.3%)
- Social Isolation: 40.2%
- Food Insecurity: 31.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.7%
- Diabetes: 20.9%
- Obesity: 44.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.7%
- Poverty Rate: 22.7% (13.2–32.2%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.6% (11.2–24.0%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.3%
- Unemployment: 7.1% (2.1–12.1%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Mount Olive AME Church
- Old St. Paul Church — 1.7 mi away
- Oak Grove M.B. Church — 1.7 mi away
- St Paul Primative Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Second Morning Star M.B. Church — 2.7 mi away
- Bethel A M E Church — 2.8 mi away
- Bethel AME Church — 2.8 mi away
- The Church On the Farm — 2.8 mi away
- Attapulgus Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away
- Attapulgus United Methodist Church — 2.9 mi away
- Smith Grove Missionary Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Bethel AME Church — 2.8 mi away
- Attapulgus United Methodist Church — 2.9 mi away
- Hopewell Methodist Church — 4 mi away in Bainbridge, GA
- Greenshade AME Church — 4.8 mi away in Quincy, FL
- Faceville Methodist Church — 6.3 mi away in Bainbridge, GA
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