First Southern Methodist Church
First Southern Methodist Church is a church in Gadsden, AL 35901. It is one of 215 churches in Gadsden.
Gadsden, AL, 35901Shares a ministry location with United Faith Christian Church.
First Southern Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,361 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Alabama — 25,985 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 First Southern Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 8 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third 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 households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 84.9%
- Obesity: 54.3%
- Food Insecurity: 42.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.9%
- Poverty Rate: 34.0% (21.5–46.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 29.7%
- Diabetes: 24.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 23.1% (13.4–32.8%)
- Unemployment: 13.9% (3.0–25.2%)
- Social Isolation: 39.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.8%
- Depression: 23.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Gadsden city is served by 121 churches — about one congregation for every 258 residents.
Churches near First Southern Methodist Church
- United Faith Christian Church — 0 mi away
- New Covenant Church Assemblies of God — 0.1 mi away
- Central United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Abundant Life Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Casa de Fuego — 0.2 mi away in Gadsen, AL
- Twelfth Street Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Advent Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Central Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Episcopal Church of the Holy Comforter — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Central United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Sweet Home Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Grants Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away
- Gadsden First United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Saint John Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.8 mi away