Bluff Springs AME Church
Bluff Springs AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church in Lumpkin, GA 31815. It is one of 28 churches in Lumpkin, and one of 2 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
Lumpkin, GA, 31815Bluff Springs 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 Bluff Springs AME Church
It takes 8.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Poverty Rate: 36.4% (24.0–48.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 36.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 32.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.1%
- Obesity: 41.4%
- Social Isolation: 39.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.0% (9.1–26.9%)
- Diabetes: 17.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.2%
- Unemployment: 8.0% (1.6–14.4%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Bluff Springs AME Church
- Providence United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Shady Grove Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
- New Hope Missionary Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away
- Wesley Chapel Methodist Church — 3.9 mi away
- Green Grove Missionary Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away
- Lumpkin United Methodist Church — 4.8 mi away
- Athen Hill Baptist Church — 5.6 mi away
- Mount Mariah Baptist Church — 6.1 mi away
- Lumpkin Methodist Church — 6.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 6.2 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Providence United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Wesley Chapel Methodist Church — 3.9 mi away
- Lumpkin Methodist Church — 6.2 mi away
- Greater Saint Mark AME Church — 6.3 mi away
- Second Methodist Church — 6.5 mi away