Payton AME Church

Payton AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church in Valdosta, GA 31601. It is one of 233 churches in Valdosta, and one of 4 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.

Valdosta, GA, 31601

Payton 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 Payton AME Church

It takes 2.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 5 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance. 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.

  • Social Isolation: 37.2%
  • Food Insecurity: 21.2%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.6% (11.5–23.8%)
  • Diabetes: 15.1%
  • Obesity: 39.8%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.3%
  • Poverty Rate: 18.0% (9.2–26.8%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 16.8%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.5%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.1%
  • Unemployment: 7.6% (0.6–14.7%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

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