Calera First United Methodist Church
Calera First United Methodist Church is a church in Calera, AL 35040. It is one of 35 churches in Calera.
Calera, AL, 35040Calera 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 Calera First United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Social Isolation: 34.1%
- Obesity: 37.0%
- Depression: 23.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.9%
- Food Insecurity: 19.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.3% (6.2–16.4%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Calera city is served by 7 churches — about one congregation for every 894 residents.
Churches near Calera First United Methodist Church
- Rock of Faith Christian Church — 0 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Collectivus Church — 0.1 mi away
- Grants Chapel AME Church — 0.2 mi away
- Spirit and Truth Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Sixteenth Street Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Calera Bible Baptist — 0.5 mi away
- Grace Community Chapel — 0.5 mi away
- Northside Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Shiloh Methodist Church — 2.7 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 6.4 mi away in Montevallo, AL
- Camp Branch United Methodist Church — 7.4 mi away in Alabaster, AL
- Mount Era Methodist Church — 7.6 mi away in Columbiana, AL
- Rocky Mount Methodist Church — 7.9 mi away in Jemison, AL