Saint James United Methodist Church
Saint James United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 301 Watts Avenue in Laurens, SC 29360. It is one of 70 churches in Laurens, and one of 2 United Methodist congregations in the city.
301 Watts Avenue, Laurens, SC, 29360Phone: (864) 984-0155 · Website: https://stjameslaurens.com
Saint James United Methodist 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 Saint James United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. About a third of the people here live without health insurance, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 37.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 35.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 24.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.2%
- Obesity: 42.0%
- Social Isolation: 37.0%
- Diabetes: 17.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.9%
- Depression: 24.6%
- Unemployment: 7.6% (0.0–16.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Laurens city is served by 20 churches — about one congregation for every 240 residents.
Churches near Saint James United Methodist Church
- Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church — 0 mi away
- Lucas Avenue Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Wattsville Pentecostal Holiness Church — 0.3 mi away
- Centro de Gracia IPUL — 0.4 mi away
- Eastside Church — 0.6 mi away
- Central United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Iglesia Pentecostal Fuente de Agua Viva — 0.8 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- New Beginnings in Christ — 0.9 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Central United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Poplar Spring AME Church — 3 mi away
- Mount Vernon AME Church — 3.9 mi away
- Leesville Southern Methodist Church — 4.2 mi away
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