Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church
Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Gainesville, GA 30501. It is one of 181 churches in Gainesville, and one of 6 Methodist congregations in the city.
Gainesville, GA, 30501Website: http://www.spumc705.org/
Saint Paul 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.
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The community around Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 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 2,100 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: 42.9%
- Food Insecurity: 42.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 33.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 31.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 29.1% (19.9–38.2%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.2%
- Diabetes: 18.1%
- Obesity: 40.5%
- Child Poverty: 38.1% (20.0–56.2%)
- Poverty Rate: 28.1% (16.3–40.0%)
- Transportation Barriers: 20.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Gainesville city is served by 29 churches — about one congregation for every 1,937 residents.
Churches near Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Mt Calvary Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Holiness Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint John Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Antioch Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Michaels Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Midtown Worship Center — 0.4 mi away
- First Congregational Holiness Church — 0.4 mi away
- Grace Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Gainesville Baptist Mission — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Paul United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Chicopee United Methodist Church — 3.4 mi away
- Gainesville First United Methodist Church — 3.9 mi away
- McEver Road United Methodist Church — 4.7 mi away in Oakwood, GA
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