Francis Brown African Methodist Episcopal Church
Francis Brown African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Charleston, SC 29403. It is one of 246 churches in Charleston, and one of 13 Methodist congregations in the city.
Charleston, SC, 29403Website: http://ame-church.com/
Francis Brown African Methodist Episcopal 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 Francis Brown African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Poverty Rate: 39.3% (29.1–49.5%)
- Social Isolation: 35.2%
- Depression: 27.6%
- Food Insecurity: 18.2% (13.4–25.4%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Charleston city is served by 112 churches — about one congregation for every 1,322 residents.
Churches near Francis Brown African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Manna Life Center — 0.1 mi away
- Saint James United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Cannon Street Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Calvary Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Calvary Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Christ Gospel Church — 0.2 mi away
- Shiloh Ame Church — 0.2 mi away
- The Church of the Holy Communion — 0.2 mi away
- Morris Street Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Line Street Church of God — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint James United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Calvary Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Herman Reformed Methodist Union Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Morris Brown AME Church — 0.3 mi away
- Nichols Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
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