Hamer African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Hamer African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is a African Methodist Episcopal Zion church in Hamer, SC 29547. It is one of 18 churches in Hamer.
Hamer, SC, 29547Hamer African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 853 congregations of the Methodist family gather across South 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 Hamer African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
It takes 2.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third 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.
- Obesity: 45.7%
- Food Insecurity: 33.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.5%
- Diabetes: 20.3%
- Social Isolation: 36.6%
- Poverty Rate: 24.5% (17.0–32.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 23.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.3% (11.9–22.8%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.5%
- Unemployment: 6.6% (1.2–12.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Hamer African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
- Hamer Church — 0.6 mi away
- I'm Not the same Ministries — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Matthews Church — 0.9 mi away
- Hazel Grove Church — 1.1 mi away
- Hazzy Grove Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Hamer Church of God — 1.6 mi away in Dillon, SC
- Mount Zion Church — 2 mi away
- Kentyre Church — 2.1 mi away
- Magnolia Stateline AME Church — 2.2 mi away
- Voice of the Living Word Church — 2.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- St. Paul's Methodist Church — 4 mi away in Dillon, SC
- McCoy Chapel — 4.1 mi away
- Rowland United Methodist Church — 4.4 mi away in Rowland, NC
- New Hope United Methodist Church — 4.4 mi away in Rowland, NC
- Saint Stephens United Methodist Church — 4.4 mi away in Dillon, SC
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