First United Methodist Church of Bessemer
First United Methodist Church of Bessemer is a church in Bessemer, AL 35020. It is one of 167 churches in Bessemer.
Bessemer, AL, 35020First United Methodist Church of Bessemer 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 United Methodist Church of Bessemer
Within about a mile of this church, more than 7 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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 households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 75.5%
- Obesity: 49.5%
- Food Insecurity: 45.7%
- Social Isolation: 42.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.0%
- Poverty Rate: 34.8% (21.3–48.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 31.1%
- Diabetes: 25.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.5% (7.8–19.2%)
- Unemployment: 6.9% (1.8–12.6%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Bessemer city is served by 71 churches — about one congregation for every 425 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church of Bessemer
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Visionary Ministry Church — 0.3 mi away
- South Highland Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Perfecting Reconciliation Church International — 0.3 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church of Bessemer — 0.3 mi away
- Word of Faith Global Ministries — 0.4 mi away in Pelham, AL
- Saint Peter Primitive Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Bessemer — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Morning Star United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Pettys African Methodist Episcopal Zion Chapel — 0.9 mi away
- Allen Temple African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.9 mi away
- Greater Saint Pauls Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 1 mi away
- Porters Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.2 mi away