Greater Saint John African Methodist Episcopal Church
Greater Saint John African Methodist Episcopal Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 6201 South Throop Street in Chicago, IL 60636. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 13 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
6201 South Throop Street, Chicago, IL, 60636Website: http://gsjamec.org
Greater Saint John African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,029 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Illinois — 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.
Find Greater Saint John African Methodist Episcopal Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Greater Saint John African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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 the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 68.6%
- Food Insecurity: 42.9%
- Social Isolation: 41.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 33.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.5%
- Unemployment: 22.4% (9.9–34.9%)
- Diabetes: 18.2%
- Obesity: 43.0%
- Poverty Rate: 23.3% (9.6–37.1%)
- Transportation Barriers: 19.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.9%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Chicago city is served by 1,693 churches — about one congregation for every 1,580 residents.
Churches near Greater Saint John African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Mount Carmel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- St. John EMBC Church — 0.1 mi away
- Abundant Blessings Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Jerusalem Pentecostal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Hope Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Shiloh Apostolic Lighthouse Church Inc. — 0.2 mi away
- Englewood United Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- United Church of Holiness — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Englewood Church of God — 0.2 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Mount Carmel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Christ United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Julia Gay Memorial United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Englewood United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- West Englewood United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away