Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church
Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Raleigh, NC 27607. It is one of 632 churches in Raleigh, and one of 18 Methodist congregations in the city.
Raleigh, NC, 27607Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,294 congregations of the Methodist family gather across North Carolina — 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
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,100 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.
- Social Isolation: 41.1%
- Poverty Rate: 37.9% (27.2–48.5%)
- Depression: 30.8%
- Food Insecurity: 22.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Raleigh city is served by 244 churches — about one congregation for every 1,663 residents.
Churches near Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Oak City Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- World Changers Church International — 0.3 mi away
- City Movement Church — 0.3 mi away
- Freedom Temple Church — 0.4 mi away
- Jones Chapel — 0.4 mi away
- Triangle Vineyard Christian Fellowship — 0.7 mi away
- Lifepointe Church - West — 0.7 mi away
- Bethania Church - Igreja Brasileira na Carolina do Norte — 0.8 mi away
- Ethiopian Fellowship Church — 0.8 mi away
- Capital City Christian Church — 0.8 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Westover United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Wesley Foundation — 1.5 mi away
- Fairmont United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Avent Ferry United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Highland United Methodist Church — 1.7 mi away
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