Smyrna AME Church
Smyrna AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 4665 Todd Quarter Road in Waterloo, SC 29384. It is one of 11 churches in Waterloo, and one of 2 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
4665 Todd Quarter Road, Waterloo, SC, 29384Smyrna 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 Smyrna AME Church
It takes 3.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.3%
- Diabetes: 17.0%
- Obesity: 36.2%
- Social Isolation: 31.6%
- Depression: 23.3%
- Child Poverty: 22.9% (3.7–42.0%)
- Food Insecurity: 18.8%
- Poverty Rate: 17.8% (8.9–26.8%)
- Unemployment: 6.1% (1.0–11.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Smyrna AME Church
- Laurel Hill Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Waterloo United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Bethlehem AME Church — 2.3 mi away
- New Beginning Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away
- Bethlehem Union Church — 2.8 mi away
- MX Racing — 2.9 mi away
- Rosemont Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away
- Cedar Grove Missionary Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away in Laurens, SC
- Lakeview Church — 3.7 mi away in Greenwood, SC
- Reedy Grove Pentecostal Holiness Church — 3.9 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Waterloo United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Bethlehem AME Church — 2.3 mi away
- The Connection — 6.1 mi away in Greenwood, SC
- New Hope AME Church — 6.4 mi away in Mountville, SC
- Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church — 8.6 mi away in Hodges, SC
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