First Congregational Methodist Church
First Congregational Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Anniston, AL 36201. It is one of 208 churches in Anniston, and one of 17 Methodist congregations in the city.
Anniston, AL, 36201First Congregational Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,333 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Alabama — 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 First Congregational Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 43.8% (25.0–62.0%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.4%
- Food Insecurity: 32.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 22.2% (12.8–31.7%)
- Unemployment: 12.4% (0.7–24.2%)
- Obesity: 43.9%
- Social Isolation: 38.6%
- Poverty Rate: 28.5% (18.3–38.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 20.8%
- Diabetes: 17.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.7%
- Depression: 26.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Congregational Methodist Church
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Hunter Street Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church on the Rock — 0.3 mi away
- New Covenant Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- West Anniston Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- First Wesleyan Church of Anniston — 0.4 mi away
- Peoples Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mountain View Church — 0.5 mi away
- United Freewill Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Colvin Street Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Parkwin Avenue Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Bible Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Haven United Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away
- West Anniston Methodist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Smith Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 1.9 mi away