Memorial Drive Methodist Church
Memorial Drive Methodist Church is a church in Decatur, AL 35601. It is one of 169 churches in Decatur.
Decatur, AL, 35601Memorial Drive 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 Memorial Drive Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 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: 51.9%
- Food Insecurity: 50.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 44.3%
- Social Isolation: 41.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 34.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 27.1% (18.2–36.0%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 25.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 24.9%
- Diabetes: 24.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.7%
- Poverty Rate: 29.7% (18.6–40.9%)
- Depression: 23.5%
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 Memorial Drive Methodist Church
- St James Cumberland Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Decatur AME Zion Church — 0.1 mi away
- St Stephens PB Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.2 mi away
- Pentecostal House of Prayer — 0.2 mi away
- Westside Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 0.3 mi away
- Seventh Avenue West Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- God's Love Covenant Church — 0.4 mi away
- Pentecostal Tabernacle — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Garner Memorial Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Decatur Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- First Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Wayman African Methodist Episcopal Chapel — 1.1 mi away
- Central United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away