Greater Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church
Greater Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church is a church in Waycross, GA 31501. It is one of 163 churches in Waycross.
Waycross, GA, 31501Website: https://www.mapquest.com/.../greater-mt-zion-ame-church-353845980
Greater Mount Zion 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 Greater Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third 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 healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 49.2%
- Social Isolation: 40.8%
- Food Insecurity: 40.2%
- Poverty Rate: 38.4% (26.6–50.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 29.4%
- Diabetes: 25.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.7%
- Unemployment: 12.1% (3.2–20.9%)
- Child Poverty: 34.3% (17.4–51.2%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.1% (6.1–18.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Waycross city is served by 69 churches — about one congregation for every 161 residents.
Churches near Greater Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Church of Christ Written in Heaven — 0 mi away
- Faith Works Church of God in Christ, Inc. — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Pauls Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Mount Pleasant Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Born Sanctified Church — 0.2 mi away
- Pillar of Ground Sanctified Church — 0.2 mi away
- H.j. Echols Memorial Tabernacle — 0.2 mi away
- Big Bethel Freewill Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mason Temple Church of God — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Trinity Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- First Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 1.2 mi away
- Austin Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.3 mi away
- King Solomon Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.3 mi away