Gaines Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Gaines Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 1006 May Street in Savannah, GA 31415. It is one of 461 churches in Savannah.
The Mission of Greater Gaines is to be a shining light in our community and beyond. We will share the hope, the love and compassion with others as we continue to be a witness and generously share the grace of Jesus Christ to those we serve
Welcome to the Greater Gaines Chapel website. I am glad you have chosen to spend a few moments looking around, discovering our church family.
1006 May Street, Savannah, GA, 31415Service times
- Sunday 11am
Phone: (912) 236-7588 · Website: https://www.greatergainessavannah.com/
Gaines Chapel 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 Gaines Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,200 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.
- Child Poverty: 77.5%
- Poverty Rate: 52.4%
- Food Insecurity: 43.9%
- Social Isolation: 43.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 32.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 24.5%
- Diabetes: 18.3%
- Unemployment: 16.6% (9.4–24.1%)
- Obesity: 42.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.3% (7.5–17.0%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Savannah city is served by 217 churches — about one congregation for every 727 residents.
Churches near Gaines Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Church of Faith in Christ, Inc. Non-Profit, 501c3 — 0.1 mi away
- Bolton Street Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away in savannah, GA
- Mount Zion Baptist church — 0.2 mi away
- Connor's Temple Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Tremont Temple Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Thankful Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away in savannah, GA
- Saint Matthews Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Philip African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Smyrna Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint Philip African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Philip Monumental African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Paul Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Asbury United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Wesley Monumental United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away