Flat Rock AME Church
Flat Rock AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 1136 Flat Rock Road in Abbeville, SC 29620. It is one of 71 churches in Abbeville, and one of 8 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
The Mission of the African Methodist Episcopal Church is to minister to all people's social, spiritual and physical development.
Flat Rock A.M.E. church is dedicated to faith and culture where people from all walks of life and backgrounds can feel at home, worship God, grow in faith and serve together.
1136 Flat Rock Road, Abbeville, SC, 29620Flat Rock AME Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 898 congregations of the Methodist family gather across South Carolina — 25,985 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 Flat Rock AME Church
It takes 3.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Diabetes: 16.7%
- Obesity: 36.7%
- Social Isolation: 31.6%
- Child Poverty: 29.5% (11.1–48.0%)
- Depression: 23.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.7%
- Food Insecurity: 18.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.1% (6.4–19.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Flat Rock AME Church
- Little Mountain Presbyterian Church — 1.4 mi away
- Mount Clement CME Church — 1.7 mi away
- Bells Chapel GMC — 2.7 mi away
- Midway Baptist Church — 3 mi away
- Fairfield Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away
- Shiloh United Methodist Church — 3.5 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away
- Cypress Chapel A.M.E. Church — 4.6 mi away
- Shiloh Mennonite Church — 5.1 mi away in Due West, SC
- Campfield Baptist Church — 5.8 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Mount Clement CME Church — 1.7 mi away
- Bells Chapel GMC — 2.7 mi away
- Shiloh United Methodist Church — 3.5 mi away
- Cypress Chapel A.M.E. Church — 4.6 mi away
- Rocky River A M E Church — 6 mi away in Iva, SC
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