Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church
Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Monmouth, IL 61462. It is one of 29 churches in Monmouth, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
Monmouth, IL, 61462Saint James 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.
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The community around Saint James 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 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about 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 healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 40.1%
- Child Poverty: 37.0% (19.4–54.7%)
- Social Isolation: 35.3%
- Food Insecurity: 20.5%
- Unemployment: 9.4% (4.5–14.3%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.0%
- Poverty Rate: 20.3% (12.3–28.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 15.5%
- Diabetes: 13.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Monmouth city is served by 20 churches — about one congregation for every 237 residents.
Churches near Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Maple City Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Lighthouse Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Apostolic Church of Monmouth — 0.5 mi away
- New Life Foursquare Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 0.5 mi away
- The Crossing — 0.5 mi away
- Foursquare Gospel Church — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Kirkwood United Methodist Church — 6.1 mi away in Kirkwood, IL
- United Methodist Church — 9.3 mi away in Little York, IL
- Biggsville United Methodist Church — 12 mi away in Biggsville, IL
- United Methodist Church — 14.5 mi away in Abingdon, IL