Oakland United Methodist Church
Oakland United Methodist Church is a church in Florence, AL 35633. It is one of 211 churches in Florence.
Florence, AL, 35633Oakland 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.
Find Oakland United Methodist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Oakland United Methodist Church
It takes 3.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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: 33.2%
- Depression: 23.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.1%
- Diabetes: 13.5%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Oakland United Methodist Church
- Eleven Grove Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Oakland Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Galilee Missionary Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Jones Chapel Freewill Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
- New Hope Church of Christ — 2.3 mi away
- Oak Grove African Methodist Episcopal Church — 2.3 mi away
- Pleasant Hill United Methodist Church — 2.5 mi away
- Glendale Church — 2.6 mi away
- West Lauderdale Cowboy Church — 2.9 mi away
- Glendale Church of Christ — 3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Oak Grove African Methodist Episcopal Church — 2.3 mi away
- Pleasant Hill United Methodist Church — 2.5 mi away
- Central Heights United Methodist Church — 3.7 mi away
- Canaan United Methodist Church — 4.3 mi away
- Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church — 4.8 mi away