St James AME Church
St James AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 1100 Summit St in Elgin, IL 60120-4321. It is one of 116 churches in Elgin.
Serving since 1881
1100 Summit St, Elgin, IL, 60120-4321Service times
- Sunday 9:30am · School starts
Phone: (847) 695-8644 · Website: https://www.stjameselgin.org/
St James AME Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,033 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Illinois — 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.
Ministries at St James AME Church
- Sunday School
- Vacation Bible School
- Health & Wholeness Ministry
- Dance Ministry
- Music Ministry
- Lydia Missionary Society
- Youth Music Ministry
- Bible Study
- Men's Fellowship
- Usher Board
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The community around St James AME Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About 1 in 5 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly a quarter have no one they feel they can count on. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 35.4%
- Food Insecurity: 21.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.5%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St James AME Church
- First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Cento Cristiano Familia Y Fe — 0.1 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Lutheran Church of Our Savior — 0.3 mi away
- Elgin Family Worship Center — 0.4 mi away
- Chicago Open Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Creation Church — 0.7 mi away
- Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Casa De Oracion — 0.7 mi away
- Church of the Nazarene — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- El Mesias United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- First Universalist Church — 1.8 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 2.3 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 3.9 mi away in West Dundee, IL