Shady Grove AME Church
Shady Grove AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church in Georgetown-Quitman County, GA 39854. It is one of 18 churches in Georgetown-Quitman County, and one of 2 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
Georgetown-Quitman County, GA, 39854Shady Grove AME 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 Shady Grove AME Church
It takes 4.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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.
- Obesity: 47.6%
- Child Poverty: 47.2% (31.3–63.3%)
- Food Insecurity: 34.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.2%
- Diabetes: 21.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.0%
- Social Isolation: 39.3%
- Poverty Rate: 24.9% (16.8–33.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 24.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.9% (10.6–25.2%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Georgetown-Quitman County unified government is served by 12 churches — about one congregation for every 181 residents.
Churches near Shady Grove AME Church
- Berry Chapel Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Saint Pauls Church — 3.3 mi away
- Georgetown Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away
- Georgetown United Methodist — 3.5 mi away in Georgetown, GA
- First Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away in Georgetown, GA
- Georgetown Church of Christ — 3.5 mi away in Georgetown, GA
- First Assembly of God — 4.7 mi away in Eufaula, AL
- Eufaula Seventh-day Adventist — 4.7 mi away in Eufaula, AL
- Calvary Baptist Church — 4.7 mi away in Eufaula, AL
- Brown Memorial Church of God In Christ — 4.7 mi away in Eufaula, AL
More Methodist churches nearby
- New Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church — 4.8 mi away in Eufaula, AL
- Saint Lukes African Methodist Episcopal Church — 4.9 mi away in Eufaula, AL
- Washington Street United Methodist Church — 5.1 mi away in Eufaula, AL
- Saint John African Methodist Episcopal Church — 5.2 mi away in Eufaula, AL
- First Methodist Church — 5.3 mi away in Eufaula, AL
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