Saint Peter A.M.E. Church
Saint Peter A.M.E. Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 118 Mount Carmel Road in Abbeville, SC 29620. It is one of 71 churches in Abbeville, and one of 8 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
118 Mount Carmel Road, Abbeville, SC, 29620Saint Peter A.M.E. 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 Saint Peter A.M.E. Church
It takes 3.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 18.1%
- Social Isolation: 33.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.5%
- Food Insecurity: 23.2%
- Obesity: 39.5%
- Child Poverty: 26.3% (6.4–46.2%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.4%
- Poverty Rate: 16.1% (8.3–23.9%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.9% (5.5–18.3%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Saint Peter A.M.E. Church
- Lebanon Presbyterian Church — 1.1 mi away
- Sharon United Methodist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Bridge Church IPHC — 2 mi away
- Rock Buffalo Church — 2.1 mi away
- Union Chapel — 2.1 mi away
- Walnut Grove Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away
- Lighthouse Ministries — 2.7 mi away
- Friendship Worship Center — 2.8 mi away
- Piney Grove Holiness Church Ministries — 3 mi away
- Grace Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 3.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Sharon United Methodist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Grace Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 3.3 mi away
- Main Street Methodist Church — 3.9 mi away
- Little Mountain AME Church — 3.9 mi away
- Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church — 3.9 mi away
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