Greater Allen Temple African Methodist Episcopal Church
Greater Allen Temple African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Jackson, MS 39204. It is one of 479 churches in Jackson, and one of 29 Methodist congregations in the city.
Jackson, MS, 39204Greater Allen Temple 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 Allen Temple African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half 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.
- Child Poverty: 73.2% (53.3–93.1%)
- Social Isolation: 45.8%
- Food Insecurity: 37.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.7%
- Poverty Rate: 33.2% (15.0–51.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 26.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.9%
- Unemployment: 14.4% (5.5–23.4%)
- Obesity: 42.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.4% (11.3–23.4%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.4% (10.5–17.8%)
- Diabetes: 13.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Jackson city is served by 237 churches — about one congregation for every 627 residents.
Churches near Greater Allen Temple African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Kingdom of God in Christ Church — 0.1 mi away
- Apostolic Faith Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Gethsemane Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Cherry Grove Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- United Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- College Hill Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- True Holiness Pentecostal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Smith Chapel Freewill Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint James Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Third Temple Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Lynch Street Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Pratt Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Pearl Street African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.9 mi away
- Alta Woods United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
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