Ensley First United Methodist Church

Ensley First United Methodist Church is a church in Birmingham, AL 35218. It is one of 848 churches in Birmingham.

Birmingham, AL, 35218

Ensley First 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 Ensley First United Methodist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.

Obesity: 49.3%
Social Isolation: 43.2%
Food Insecurity: 41.4%
Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.0%
Housing Insecurity: 29.4%
Diabetes: 25.3%
Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.6%
Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.1%
Poverty Rate: 27.3% (13.2–41.5%)
Transportation Barriers: 19.3%
Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.5% (6.7–24.4%)
Unemployment: 11.2% (6.2–16.1%)
Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.0%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Birmingham city is served by 254 churches — about one congregation for every 722 residents.

Churches near Ensley First United Methodist Church

A.c.t.s. Ministries — 0.1 mi away
Nichols Temple AME Church — 0.1 mi away
Ensley Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
Saint Anthony of Padua Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
Ensley Bible Church — 0.1 mi away
Saint James Baptist Christian Center — 0.2 mi away
Repairers Church — 0.2 mi away
Emmanuel Temple of Praise — 0.2 mi away
Community Primitive Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
Whole Truth Church of God In Christ — 0.2 mi away

More Methodist churches nearby

Metropolitan Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
Trinity African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.5 mi away
Saint Johns United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
Ensley Highland United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away

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