Pleasant Grove AME Church
Pleasant Grove AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 12 General Henderson Road in Newberry, SC 29108. It is one of 70 churches in Newberry, and one of 6 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
12 General Henderson Road, Newberry, SC, 29108Pleasant Grove AME 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 Pleasant Grove AME Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 54.4% (37.7–71.0%)
- Social Isolation: 33.9%
- Food Insecurity: 22.7%
- Diabetes: 15.1%
- Obesity: 36.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.9%
- Poverty Rate: 21.8% (12.0–31.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 15.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.5% (6.6–16.4%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.8%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Pleasant Grove AME Church
- Freedom Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Lebanon United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away
- New Enoree Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Saint Johns Lutheran Church — 2.1 mi away
- Saint Mathew AME Church — 2.2 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
- One 2 One Christian Church — 2.7 mi away
- Faith Lutheran Church — 2.8 mi away
- Clayton Memorial Unitarian Universalist Church — 2.9 mi away
- Queen Memorial Presbyterian Church — 3.1 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Lebanon United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Saint Mathew AME Church — 2.2 mi away
- Lewis Memorial United Methodist Church — 4.1 mi away
- Central Methodist Church — 4.2 mi away
- Epting Memorial United Methodist Church — 4.3 mi away
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