St John Ame Church

The community around St John Ame Church

It takes 4.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 40.4%
• Social Isolation: 34.4%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.1%
• Food Insecurity: 23.1%
• Diabetes: 18.0%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.3% (9.0–21.6%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.2%
• Housing Insecurity: 17.0%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.5%

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

Churches near St John Ame Church

• Saint Johns Church — 0 mi away
• Bethel Church — 2.1 mi away
• Mouzon Church — 2.5 mi away
• Saint Michaels Church — 3.3 mi away
• Union Church — 3.4 mi away
• Beulah Church — 3.5 mi away
• Goodwill Church — 3.6 mi away
• Mount Vernon Church — 3.6 mi away in Greeleyville, SC
• Lodabar Church — 3.8 mi away
• Mt Vernon Methodist Church — 3.9 mi away in Greeleyville, SC