First Church of the Nazarene
First Church of the Nazarene is a church in Decatur, AL 35601. It is one of 169 churches in Decatur.
Decatur, AL, 35601Shares a ministry location with St Stephens PB Church.
First Church of the Nazarene is part of the Wesleyan-Holiness family of churches in The American Church Story. 97 congregations of the Wesleyan-Holiness family gather across Alabama — 4,365 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Wesleyan-Holiness churches have insisted that God does not merely forgive people, he changes them — and they took that straight to the poorest streets they could find. The Salvation Army's kettles and soup lines, a century of rescue missions, and an early and costly record of ordaining women all came out of this family.
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The community around First Church of the Nazarene
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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Obesity: 50.9%
- Food Insecurity: 48.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 42.7%
- Social Isolation: 40.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 33.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 25.4% (17.1–33.7%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 24.7%
- Diabetes: 23.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 23.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.0%
- Poverty Rate: 27.2% (16.8–37.7%)
- Depression: 23.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Decatur city is served by 68 churches — about one congregation for every 749 residents.
Churches near First Church of the Nazarene
- St Stephens PB Church — 0 mi away
- Seventh Avenue West Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Memorial Drive Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 0.2 mi away
- St James Cumberland Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Decatur AME Zion Church — 0.3 mi away
- God's Love Covenant Church — 0.4 mi away
- Pentecostal House of Prayer — 0.4 mi away
- Westside Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Pentecostal Tabernacle — 0.4 mi away
More Wesleyan-Holiness churches nearby
- Larkwood Church of the Nazarene — 2.3 mi away