Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church
Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Hammond, LA 70403. It is one of 99 churches in Hammond, and one of 4 Methodist congregations in the city.
Hammond, LA, 70403Saint James 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 James African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 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: 40.5%
- Food Insecurity: 27.4%
- Obesity: 44.3%
- Child Poverty: 30.9% (12.2–49.7%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.9%
- Poverty Rate: 24.3% (14.4–34.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 20.3%
- Diabetes: 16.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.2%
- Depression: 25.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Hammond city is served by 29 churches — about one congregation for every 498 residents.
Churches near Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Liberty Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Oakgrove Church of Christ Holiness — 0.6 mi away
- Hammond Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Church of God of Prophecy — 0.7 mi away
- Eastside Pentecostal Church of God — 0.7 mi away
- New Life Outreach Ministry — 0.7 mi away
- Showers of Blessing Deliverance Temple — 0.7 mi away
- Woodland Park Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Hanson Avenue Church of God — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Greater Saint African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.3 mi away
- Alstork African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 1.4 mi away
- Hammond Southern Methodist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church Number 1 — 2 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 3.8 mi away in Ponchatoula, LA