Fourth Street Methodist Church

Fourth Street Methodist Church is a church in Birmingham, AL 35214. It is one of 848 churches in Birmingham.

Birmingham, AL, 35214

Fourth Street 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 Fourth Street Methodist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 8 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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 households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.

  • Child Poverty: 80.1%
  • Obesity: 46.1%
  • Social Isolation: 40.9%
  • Food Insecurity: 33.4%
  • Diabetes: 24.0%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.0%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.7%
  • Poverty Rate: 27.8% (19.4–36.2%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 23.6%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.0%
  • Transportation Barriers: 15.7%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.3% (7.3–19.3%)

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

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

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