Poplar Spring AME Church
Poplar Spring AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 21578 Highway 221 North in Laurens, SC 29360. It is one of 70 churches in Laurens, and one of 2 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
21578 Highway 221 North, Laurens, SC, 29360Poplar Spring 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.
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The community around Poplar Spring AME Church
It takes 2.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, 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.
- Social Isolation: 34.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.2%
- Food Insecurity: 24.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.9% (10.6–23.3%)
- Diabetes: 15.9%
- Obesity: 37.7%
- Depression: 23.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.9%
- Poverty Rate: 17.7% (6.7–28.6%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Poplar Spring AME Church
- Ora Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church — 1.7 mi away
- Lighthouse Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away
- Northside Church — 2.6 mi away
- Redemption Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away
- Northside Church — 2.7 mi away
- Flat Ruff Church — 2.8 mi away
- Lucas Avenue Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away
- Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church — 3 mi away
- Saint James United Methodist Church — 3 mi away
- Wattsville Pentecostal Holiness Church — 3.2 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint James United Methodist Church — 3 mi away
- Sandy Springs United Methodist Church — 3.7 mi away
- Central United Methodist Church — 3.8 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 4.2 mi away
- Mount Vernon AME Church — 5.2 mi away
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