Greater Saint John African Methodist Episcopal Church

Greater Saint John African Methodist Episcopal Church is a church in Biloxi, MS 39530. It is one of 81 churches in Biloxi.

Biloxi, MS, 39530

Website: http://www.greaterstjohnamechurch.com/

Greater Saint John African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 614 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Mississippi — 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 John 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 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.

Food Insecurity: 41.2%
Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.8%
Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.3%
Poverty Rate: 34.0% (21.4–46.6%)
Housing Insecurity: 27.3%
Diabetes: 22.7%
Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.7% (14.2–27.3%)
Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.7%
Obesity: 43.8%
Social Isolation: 39.3%
Child Poverty: 37.7% (26.2–59.0%)
Transportation Barriers: 20.3%
Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.0%
Unemployment: 8.9% (2.3–15.8%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

Biloxi city is served by 27 churches — about one congregation for every 1,784 residents.

Churches near Greater Saint John African Methodist Episcopal Church

Division Street Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
First Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
Main Street Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
New Bethel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
St. Paul United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
Lighthouse Apostolic Biloxi — 0.5 mi away
Epworth United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
Saint Louis Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
Our Mother of Sorrows Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away

More Methodist churches nearby

St. Paul United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
Epworth United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
Eat End United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
Saint Paul United Methodist — 2.9 mi away in Ocean Springs, MS
Heritage United Methodist Church — 3.4 mi away in D'Iberville, MS

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