Canton Bend United Methodist Church
Canton Bend United Methodist Church is a church in Camden, AL 36726. It is one of 47 churches in Camden.
Camden, AL, 36726Canton Bend 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 Canton Bend United Methodist Church
It takes 5.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Child Poverty: 58.0% (39.4–76.6%)
- Obesity: 53.2%
- Food Insecurity: 41.5%
- Social Isolation: 40.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 28.7%
- Diabetes: 24.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.7%
- Poverty Rate: 26.0% (13.3–38.8%)
- Transportation Barriers: 19.7%
- Unemployment: 11.0% (1.3–22.2%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.2% (4.3–18.1%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Canton Bend United Methodist Church
- Saint Wisdom Church — 2.4 mi away
- Shady Grove Church — 2.7 mi away
- Saint Francis Church — 2.8 mi away
- Ye Shall Know the Truth — 2.9 mi away in Alberta, AL
- Union Grove Church — 3.2 mi away
- Holy Cross Church — 3.5 mi away
- New Trinity Church — 3.6 mi away
- Friendship Church — 3.7 mi away
- Rock West Church — 4 mi away
- Pleasant Grove Church — 4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Camden Methodist Church — 5.6 mi away
- Saint Pauls African Methodist Episcopal Church — 5.8 mi away
- Arlington Methodist Church — 13.8 mi away
- Waymon Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 15 mi away
- First Methodist Church — 21.7 mi away in Thomaston, AL