J E Beard Chapel

J E Beard Chapel is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 20 Hanover Street in Charleston, SC 29403. It is one of 246 churches in Charleston, and one of 7 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.

20 Hanover Street, Charleston, SC, 29403

Service times

  • Sunday 11am

Phone: (843) 723-8940 · Website: https://gbcame.org/

J E Beard Chapel 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 J E Beard Chapel

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 more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,200 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: 39.6% (26.5–52.8%)
  • Social Isolation: 36.9%
  • Depression: 28.0%
  • Food Insecurity: 19.4% (14.7–25.2%)
  • Unemployment: 7.9% (1.6–14.3%)

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.

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