St James AME
St James AME is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 700 Jones Street in Picayune, MS 39466. It is one of 72 churches in Picayune.
700 Jones Street, Picayune, MS, 39466Website: http://www.stjamesamechurch.com
St James AME 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 St James AME
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 28.1%
- Obesity: 43.1%
- Social Isolation: 39.2%
- Child Poverty: 32.5% (16.0–49.0%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.5%
- Poverty Rate: 23.0% (11.8–34.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 20.7%
- Diabetes: 16.6%
- Unemployment: 8.6% (0.8–16.8%)
- Transportation Barriers: 14.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.3% (6.9–19.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Picayune city is served by 26 churches — about one congregation for every 294 residents.
Churches near St James AME
- Trinity Outreach Ministries — 0 mi away
- Pleasant Valley Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Emmanuel Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Newness of Life Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Restoration Full Gospel Ministries — 0.4 mi away
- The Life Church of Picayune — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
- St Barnabas Anglican Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Picayune — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Weems Chapel United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Pearl River Methodist Church — 10.4 mi away in Pearl River, LA
- Aldersgate — 15.6 mi away in Slidell, LA
- First United Methodist Church of Slidell — 17.6 mi away in Slidell, LA
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