St Mary AME Church

St Mary AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 1603 Rex Ave in Shreveport, LA 71101-5143. It is one of 535 churches in Shreveport, and one of 3 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.

We exist to meet needs. Titus 3:14

The mission of St Mary AME Church is to meet spiritual, physical, and educational needs.

1603 Rex Ave, Shreveport, LA, 71101-5143

Service times

  • Monday, Wednesday, Friday 10am

Phone: (318) 222-3997 · Website: https://www.stmaryameshreveport.com/

St Mary AME 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.

Ministries at St Mary AME Church

  • Women's Missionary Society
  • Young People's Division
  • Christian Education Department
  • Music Ministry

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The community around St Mary AME 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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third 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.

  • Obesity: 46.9%
  • Food Insecurity: 39.1%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.8%
  • Poverty Rate: 33.5% (21.3–45.7%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 27.8%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.3%
  • Diabetes: 20.4%
  • Unemployment: 14.6% (2.5–26.7%)
  • Social Isolation: 40.0%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.3%
  • Transportation Barriers: 19.0%
  • Depression: 26.7%
  • Child Poverty: 26.2% (9.6–42.9%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

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