Douglas First United Methodist Church
Douglas First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Douglas, AL 35980. It is one of 22 churches in Douglas.
Douglas, AL, 35980Douglas 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 Douglas First United Methodist Church
It takes 2.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Social Isolation: 37.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.0%
- Obesity: 38.3%
- Depression: 26.3%
- Child Poverty: 24.4% (11.0–37.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 19.6%
- Poverty Rate: 16.9% (9.9–23.9%)
- Diabetes: 14.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.2% (10.5–17.9%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Douglas First United Methodist Church
- El Tabernáculo Espíritu Libre — 0.3 mi away
- Douglas Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Welcome Home Church — 0.7 mi away
- Golden Heights Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Bethlehem Church — 1.2 mi away
- New Clear Creek Primitive Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away in Boaz, AL
- Oak Grove Methodist Church — 2 mi away
- Holly Grove Church — 2 mi away
- Concord Baptist Church — 2 mi away
- Mount Sinai Church — 2.1 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Oak Grove Methodist Church — 2 mi away
- Nixon Chapel Bible Methodist — 4 mi away
- Nixon Chapel United Methodist — 4.2 mi away
- Pleasant Grove Methodist Church — 4.3 mi away
- Cove Methodist Church — 6.1 mi away in Boaz, AL