Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church
Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Leland, MS 38756. It is one of 51 churches in Leland, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
Leland, MS, 38756Saint James 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 Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. 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: 30.8%
- Diabetes: 19.1%
- Obesity: 42.8%
- Social Isolation: 35.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.0%
- Poverty Rate: 26.3% (14.0–38.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 22.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.6% (2.5–20.8%)
- Unemployment: 6.4% (1.5–11.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church
- New Zion Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- St James A M E Church Leland — 0.1 mi away
- Leland Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Comunidad Hispana, Leland, MS — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Johns Episcopal Mission — 0.3 mi away
- Leland United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint James Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Peters Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Leland United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Balls Temple African Methodist Episcopal Church — 7.3 mi away in Greenville, MS
- Grace United Methodist Church — 7.4 mi away in Greenville, MS
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 8.5 mi away in Greenville, MS
- Revels United Methodist Church — 8.6 mi away in Greenville, MS
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