Greater Saint African Methodist Episcopal Church
Greater Saint African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Hammond, LA 70401. It is one of 99 churches in Hammond, and one of 4 Methodist congregations in the city.
Hammond, LA, 70401Greater Saint 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 Greater Saint African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,100 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.
- Social Isolation: 42.2%
- Food Insecurity: 27.1%
- Obesity: 42.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.1%
- Poverty Rate: 27.9% (18.8–37.0%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.4%
- Depression: 26.7%
- Child Poverty: 26.6% (7.3–45.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 19.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.8%
- Diabetes: 13.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Hammond city is served by 29 churches — about one congregation for every 498 residents.
Churches near Greater Saint African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Emmanuel Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0 mi away
- First Bethel United Progressive Community Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Paul Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Holy Ghost Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Grace Memorial Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Living Well Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Crossroads Church — 0.4 mi away
- Alstork African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Alstork African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.5 mi away
- Hammond Southern Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.3 mi away
- Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church Number 1 — 2.9 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 5 mi away in Ponchatoula, LA