Greater Calvary AME Church

Greater Calvary AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at Hope Plantation Lane in Jacksonboro, SC 29452.

In keeping with the mission of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, our church will foster spiritual growth and discipleship through engaging worship experiences and innovative outreach ministries.

In the heart of Jacksonboro, South Carolina, an unincorporated community in Colleton County, is Greater Calvary AME Church. Established in 1886, the church was organized to meet the worship and social needs in the area and has since grown to be one of the area's leading religious centers.

Hope Plantation Lane, Jacksonboro, SC, 29452

Service times

  • Sunday, Tuesday 8:15am · Worship Experience Bible Study
  • Sunday, Tuesday 9am · Worship Experience Bible Study
  • Sunday, Tuesday 7pm · Worship Experience Bible Study

Phone: (843) 343-1664 · Website: https://www.greatercalvaryamejacksonboro.com/

Greater Calvary 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.

Ministries at Greater Calvary AME Church

  • Christian Education Department
  • Church School Department
  • Lay Organization
  • Women's Missionary Society
  • Sons of Allen
  • Usher Board
  • Stewardess Board
  • New Members Class Instruction
  • Gospel, Young Adult & Youth Choirs
  • Young Adult Ministry
  • Youth Praise Dance Team
  • Hospitality Team

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The community around Greater Calvary AME Church

It takes 5.8 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 nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 20.0%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.2%
  • Food Insecurity: 24.7%
  • Obesity: 39.5%
  • Social Isolation: 31.3%
  • Housing Insecurity: 17.4%
  • Poverty Rate: 17.4% (5.1–29.7%)
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.2%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

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