Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church Number 1
Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church Number 1 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 Number 1 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 Number 1
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 live with obesity, and more than 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 the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 42.2%
- Social Isolation: 39.1%
- Food Insecurity: 21.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.7%
- Depression: 26.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.8%
- Diabetes: 13.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.0%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church Number 1
- Mt Pleasant Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Mount Pleasant Church — 0.2 mi away
- Pleasant Ridge Church of God — 0.9 mi away
- New Star Church — 1.2 mi away
- Victory Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- The Vine Church — 1.3 mi away
- Unity Kingdom Fellowship Church — 1.6 mi away
- Coburn Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church — 2 mi away
- Pineview Church — 2.1 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church — 2 mi away
- Alstork African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 2.7 mi away
- Greater Saint African Methodist Episcopal Church — 2.9 mi away
- Hammond Southern Methodist Church — 3.6 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 3.9 mi away in Ponchatoula, LA