Shady Grove Methodist Church
Shady Grove Methodist Church is a church in Fairfield, AL 35064. It is one of 37 churches in Fairfield.
Fairfield, AL, 35064Shady Grove 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 Shady Grove Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,300 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.
- Child Poverty: 66.0% (48.4–83.6%)
- Obesity: 48.9%
- Social Isolation: 42.6%
- Food Insecurity: 41.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 28.7%
- Diabetes: 24.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.9%
- Poverty Rate: 29.4% (18.2–40.7%)
- Transportation Barriers: 19.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.9% (7.4–20.4%)
- Unemployment: 7.0% (1.9–12.5%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Fairfield city is served by 13 churches — about one congregation for every 565 residents.
Churches near Shady Grove Methodist Church
- Greater Lily Star Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- True Love Church — 0.3 mi away in Birmingham, AL
- Bible Way House of Prayer — 0.3 mi away in Birmingham, AL
- Fairfield First United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Fairfield Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Christ Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Joseph Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away in Birmingham, AL
- Fresh Anointing House of Worship Birmingham — 0.6 mi away
- Church of The Reconciler — 0.6 mi away
- Jesus Christ Church — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Fairfield First United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Martin Memorial United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away in Birmingham, AL
- Thompson African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 1.3 mi away
- Moody Christian Methodist Episcopal Church Temple — 1.3 mi away
- Ensley First United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away in Birmingham, AL