Gaines Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Gaines Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a church in Waycross, GA 31501. It is one of 163 churches in Waycross.
Waycross, GA, 31501Gaines 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 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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Obesity: 49.1%
- Social Isolation: 42.2%
- Food Insecurity: 40.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.0%
- Poverty Rate: 35.3% (21.6–49.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 30.6%
- Diabetes: 22.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 21.5% (12.2–30.9%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.0%
- Unemployment: 10.1% (2.0–18.2%)
- Child Poverty: 27.4% (11.8–42.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Waycross city is served by 69 churches — about one congregation for every 161 residents.
Churches near Gaines Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Waycross Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.2 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.2 mi away
- Church of Christ Written In Heaven — 0.2 mi away
- Morton Avenue Baptist Mission — 0.3 mi away
- Congregational First Born Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Olive Chapel Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Community Holiness Church — 0.3 mi away
- King Solomon Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 0.3 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- King Solomon Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Little Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1 mi away
- Austin Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.1 mi away