Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church
Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in New Orleans, LA 70112. It is one of 824 churches in New Orleans, and one of 44 Methodist congregations in the city.
New Orleans, LA, 70112Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 449 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Louisiana — 25,985 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 a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,200 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.
- Poverty Rate: 54.4%
- Food Insecurity: 45.3%
- Social Isolation: 41.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 33.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 30.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 24.1%
- Diabetes: 20.2%
- Obesity: 43.7%
- Child Poverty: 35.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.7%
- Depression: 30.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.1% (4.9–29.4%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
New Orleans city is served by 579 churches — about one congregation for every 657 residents.
Churches near Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Cosmopolitan Evangelistic Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Holy Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Christian Sunlight Spiritual Mission — 0.1 mi away
- Christian Unity Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Tulane Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Old Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Refuge Temple Church — 0.2 mi away
- Central Congregational Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Joseph Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Grace United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Marks United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- First Grace United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Morris Brown African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.2 mi away
- Grrene-Primm Education Building — 1.2 mi away
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