Ariton United Methodist Church
Ariton United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 5839 AL 51 in Ariton, AL 36311. It is one of 22 churches in Ariton, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
5839 AL 51, Ariton, AL, 36311Ariton United 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 Ariton United Methodist Church
It takes 4.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Obesity: 43.2%
- Social Isolation: 35.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.8%
- Food Insecurity: 23.4%
- Diabetes: 17.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.1%
- Depression: 24.6%
- Child Poverty: 24.5% (11.2–37.7%)
- Poverty Rate: 20.3% (14.5–26.2%)
- Housing Insecurity: 16.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.3% (7.2–15.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Ariton United Methodist Church
- Ariton Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Bethel Assembly of God Church — 1.5 mi away
- Tennille Church — 3.3 mi away in Brundidge, AL
- Rocky Head Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away
- Pleasant Ridge United Methodist Church — 3.5 mi away
- Center Ridge Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away in Brundidge, AL
- Holmes Freewill Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away
- Mount Olive Church — 4.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Pleasant Ridge United Methodist Church — 3.5 mi away
- Greater Bethel A.M.E. Church — 4.5 mi away in Brundidge, AL
- Post Oak United Methodist Church — 6.8 mi away in Ozark, AL
- Williams Chapel Methodist Church — 7.8 mi away in Brundidge, AL
- Old Tabernacle Methodist Church — 9.3 mi away in New Brockton, AL