Buffington Memorial Methodist Church
Buffington Memorial Methodist Church is a church in Boaz, AL 35956. It is one of 72 churches in Boaz.
Boaz, AL, 35956Buffington Memorial 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 Buffington Memorial Methodist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 42.5%
- Social Isolation: 35.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.6% (8.8–24.3%)
- Diabetes: 15.1%
- Unemployment: 8.4% (3.3–13.6%)
- Depression: 26.5%
- Child Poverty: 22.8% (5.9–39.7%)
- Food Insecurity: 18.5%
- Poverty Rate: 18.3% (9.0–27.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Buffington Memorial Methodist Church
- Aurora Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Fairview Cumberland Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away in Susan Moore, AL
- Shady Grove Missionary Baptist Church — 2 mi away
- Pine View Church — 2.3 mi away in Susan Moore, AL
- New Union Church — 2.4 mi away
- Abundant Hope Church — 2.5 mi away in Altoona, AL
- Walls Chapel Church of God — 2.7 mi away
- New Union Congregational Methodist Church — 2.9 mi away
- The White Shepherd Church — 3.4 mi away
- Hope Independent Church — 3.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Fairview Cumberland Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away in Susan Moore, AL
- New Union Congregational Methodist Church — 2.9 mi away
- Cove Methodist Church — 3.9 mi away
- Howelton Methodist Church — 4.2 mi away in Susan Moore, AL
- Morton Chapel United Methodist Church — 4.8 mi away in Susan Moore, AL