Bear Creek United Methodist Church
Bear Creek United Methodist Church is a church in Bear Creek, AL 35543. It is one of 8 churches in Bear Creek.
Bear Creek, AL, 35543Bear Creek 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 Bear Creek United Methodist Church
It takes 3.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 45.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.5%
- Food Insecurity: 25.8%
- Social Isolation: 36.1%
- Child Poverty: 33.7% (15.5–51.9%)
- Depression: 27.9%
- Poverty Rate: 25.0% (15.1–34.8%)
- Diabetes: 17.3%
- Unemployment: 11.1% (4.9–17.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 15.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Bear Creek town is served by 6 churches — about one congregation for every 531 residents.
Churches near Bear Creek United Methodist Church
- Bear Creek Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Bear Creek Number One Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Liberty Church — 1.1 mi away in Haleyville, AL
- Hines Memorial Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Mountain Home Church — 1.9 mi away
- Old Union Baptist Church — 2 mi away in Haleyville, AL
- Mountain Home Church of Christ — 2 mi away
- Northside Church — 2.8 mi away in Haleyville, AL
- County Line Church — 2.9 mi away in Haleyville, AL
- Mount Joy Church — 3.2 mi away in Phil Campbell, AL
More Methodist churches nearby
- Ireland Methodist Memorial Church — 3.9 mi away in Haleyville, AL
- Dime Methodist Church — 4.9 mi away in Phil Campbell, AL
- Northern Methodist Church — 5 mi away in Phil Campbell, AL
- Phil Campbell United Methodist Church — 5.1 mi away in Phil Campbell, AL
- Haleyville Methodist Church — 5.5 mi away in Haleyville, AL
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