Sweet Springs AME Church
Sweet Springs AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 20502 Highway 76 in Newberry, SC 29108. It is one of 70 churches in Newberry, and one of 6 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
20502 Highway 76, Newberry, SC, 29108Sweet Springs 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 Sweet Springs AME Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, 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 healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 45.9%
- Food Insecurity: 39.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.9%
- Diabetes: 20.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.3%
- Social Isolation: 36.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.9%
- Poverty Rate: 28.4% (17.2–39.5%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.0% (10.5–21.5%)
- Depression: 23.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Sweet Springs AME Church
- One 2 One Christian Church — 1.8 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
- House Of God Newberry — 1.9 mi away
- College Street Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
- Bethany Lutheran Church — 2.2 mi away
- Lewis Memorial United Methodist Church — 2.3 mi away
- Newberry Church Of God — 2.5 mi away
- Beth Eden Lutheran Church — 2.7 mi away
- Brown Chapel-Newberry Ame Church — 2.7 mi away
- Glory Tabernacle — 2.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Lewis Memorial United Methodist Church — 2.3 mi away
- Brown Chapel-Newberry Ame Church — 2.7 mi away
- Central Methodist Church — 3.6 mi away
- O'Neal St. United Methodist Church — 3.8 mi away
- Miller Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 4 mi away
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