Highlands United Methodist Church
Highlands United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 1045 20th Street South in Birmingham, AL 35205. It is one of 848 churches in Birmingham, and one of 5 United Methodist congregations in the city.
1045 20th Street South, Birmingham, AL, 35205Service times
- Sunday 10:30am
Phone: (205) 933-8751 · Website: http://www.highlandsumc.net/
Highlands United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,361 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Alabama — 25,985 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.
Ministries at Highlands United Methodist Church
- Children's Church
- Youth Sunday School
- Heart and Hand Sunday: Backpack Ministries
- United Women in Faith Meeting
- Church Council Meeting
- Ladies' Coffee Night
- Halloween Carnival
- Thanksgiving - Offices and CDC Closed
- Backpack Ministries
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Latest from Highlands UMC on Vimeo: September 13, 2026 - The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost (all videos).
The community around Highlands United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 42.6%
- Poverty Rate: 27.1% (18.1–36.1%)
- Child Poverty: 27.9% (18.7–41.6%)
- Depression: 26.2%
- Food Insecurity: 16.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Birmingham city is served by 254 churches — about one congregation for every 722 residents.
Churches near Highlands United Methodist Church
- Iron City Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Marys Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- South Highland Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- St. Mary's-On-the-Highland Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Southside Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church at Birmingham — 0.2 mi away
- Baptist Church of the Covenant — 0.3 mi away
- Third Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Stephen the Martyr Catholic University Chapel — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Grant African Methodist Episcopal Chapel — 1.1 mi away
- Church of the Reconciler — 1.3 mi away
- Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 1.4 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Saint Paul United Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away
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