Saint James African Methodist Church
Saint James African Methodist Church is a church in Baxley, GA 31513. It is one of 79 churches in Baxley.
Baxley, GA, 31513Saint James African Methodist 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 Saint James African Methodist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. More than a third of adults live with obesity, 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 tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 26.0%
- Obesity: 40.9%
- Social Isolation: 37.4%
- Child Poverty: 35.0% (16.5–53.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.6%
- Poverty Rate: 23.3% (11.7–34.8%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.8%
- Diabetes: 17.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.3% (8.3–24.3%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.1%
- Unemployment: 6.7% (0.3–14.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Baxley city is served by 17 churches — about one congregation for every 159 residents.
Churches near Saint James African Methodist Church
- The Rooftop Church — 0.2 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Temple — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Christopher Roman Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Dunn Memorial Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Life Cathedral Mission — 0.6 mi away
- The Church of God of Prophecy — 0.6 mi away
- Baxley Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Jersey Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christ Community Church — 1.8 mi away
- Crosby Chapel United Methodist Church — 4.2 mi away
- Hopewell United Methodist Church — 6.1 mi away
- Asbury United Methodist Church — 7.7 mi away