Garner Memorial Methodist Church
Garner Memorial Methodist Church is a church in Decatur, AL 35601. It is one of 169 churches in Decatur.
Decatur, AL, 35601Garner 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 Garner Memorial Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.7%
- Food Insecurity: 30.6%
- Diabetes: 18.7%
- Obesity: 44.3%
- Social Isolation: 37.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 21.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.8%
- Poverty Rate: 21.9% (12.3–31.5%)
- Transportation Barriers: 15.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.1% (7.5–20.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Decatur city is served by 68 churches — about one congregation for every 749 residents.
Churches near Garner Memorial Methodist Church
- Macedonia Cumberland Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- United Christians Bible Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Pauls Spiritual Church — 0.1 mi away
- Newcomb Street Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Baileys Temple Church — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Abundant Life Church — 0.2 mi away
- Kings Memorial Church — 0.2 mi away
- Union Grove Primitive Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Wayman African Methodist Episcopal Chapel — 0.3 mi away
- First Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Decatur Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Memorial Drive Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Central United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away