Smith Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church

Smith Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church is a church in Spartanburg, SC 29301. It is one of 268 churches in Spartanburg.

Spartanburg, SC, 29301

Smith Memorial African Methodist Episcopal 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 Smith Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.

Obesity: 51.3%
Food Insecurity: 45.9%
Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.3%
Housing Insecurity: 33.0%
Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.6%
Diabetes: 23.9%
Social Isolation: 38.4%
Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.7%
Poverty Rate: 26.7% (15.6–37.8%)
Transportation Barriers: 21.6%
Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.2%
Unemployment: 8.2% (1.8–14.8%)
Child Poverty: 26.5% (19.3–38.2%)
Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.5% (5.2–19.8%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Spartanburg city is served by 75 churches — about one congregation for every 514 residents.

Churches near Smith Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church

Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
New Bethel FBH Church — 0.2 mi away
New Covenant Community Church — 0.3 mi away
New Life Ministries — 0.3 mi away
Mount Nebo Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
Bunton Institutional CME Church — 0.3 mi away
Covenant Apostolics of The Upstate — 0.3 mi away
Arch Street Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
Church of God — 0.4 mi away
Greater New Zion Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away

More Methodist churches nearby

First African Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
Central United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
Bethel United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
Silver Hill Memorial United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
Shekinah Glory African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 1.4 mi away

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