Greater Saint Mark African Methodist Episcopal Church
Greater Saint Mark African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Columbus, GA 31901. It is one of 329 churches in Columbus, and one of 5 Methodist congregations in the city.
Columbus, GA, 31901Website: http://www.greatersaintmark.net/#!contact/c21dx
Greater Saint Mark African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,458 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Georgia — 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 Saint Mark African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. 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 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 47.1%
- Social Isolation: 41.5%
- Food Insecurity: 39.0%
- Poverty Rate: 35.3% (23.3–47.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 28.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.8%
- Diabetes: 20.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.3% (9.1–21.6%)
- Unemployment: 8.1% (2.4–15.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.
Columbus city is served by 66 churches — about one congregation for every 3,099 residents.
Churches near Greater Saint Mark African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Tabernacle Missionary Baptist — 0.1 mi away
- Fourth Street Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- St George's Anglican Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Beulah Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of the Highlands Columbus Campus — 0.5 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First African Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Holsey Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Cedar Hill Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away in Phenix City, AL
- St Luke United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Holsey Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Girard African Methodist Episcopal Chapel — 1 mi away in Phenix City, AL
- Nichols African Methodist Episcopal Chapel — 1.2 mi away in Phenix City, AL
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away in Phenix City, AL
- First United Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away in Phenix City, AL