Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church
Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Bogalusa, LA 70427. It is one of 64 churches in Bogalusa, and one of 4 Methodist congregations in the city.
Bogalusa, LA, 70427Website: http://stpaulamechurch.com
Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 432 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Louisiana — 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 Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about 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: 49.4%
- Child Poverty: 46.0% (28.9–63.1%)
- Food Insecurity: 34.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.0%
- Diabetes: 21.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.5%
- Unemployment: 12.1% (4.7–19.5%)
- Social Isolation: 35.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.2%
- Poverty Rate: 29.5% (19.5–39.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 23.8%
- Depression: 26.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Bogalusa city is served by 34 churches — about one congregation for every 192 residents.
Churches near Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Mount Moriah Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint John Elizabeth Chapel Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Sweet Beulah Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Life UPC — 0.4 mi away
- Terrace Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Monroe Street Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.6 mi away
- Kingdom Hall — 0.6 mi away
- Superior Avenue Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Elizabeth Sullivan Memorial United Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Salter Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 2 mi away
- Thirkield United Methodist Church — 2.2 mi away
- Harry Chapel United Methodist Church — 3.4 mi away
- Mary's Chapel United Methodist — 7.2 mi away in Angie, LA
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