Saint Mary African Methodist Episcopal Church
Saint Mary African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Thomaston, GA 30286. It is one of 90 churches in Thomaston, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
Thomaston, GA, 30286Saint Mary 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 Mary 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. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand 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.
- Poverty Rate: 31.3% (21.4–41.2%)
- Food Insecurity: 29.4%
- Diabetes: 18.8%
- Obesity: 42.7%
- Social Isolation: 39.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 22.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.8% (6.1–17.6%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Saint Mary African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Mount Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Sinai Seventh Day Adventist — 0.3 mi away
- Baptist Tabernacle — 0.3 mi away
- New Life Church — 0.4 mi away
- East Thomaston Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church of God — 0.5 mi away
- Followers of Jesus — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Thomaston First Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Pleasant Grove Church — 5.6 mi away
- The Rock United Methodist Church — 6.5 mi away
- Life Springs Methodist Church — 10.5 mi away in Meansville, GA