Sims Chapel United Methodist Church
Sims Chapel United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in McIntosh, AL 36553. It is one of 31 churches in McIntosh.
McIntosh, AL, 36553Sims Chapel 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 Sims Chapel United Methodist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Sims Chapel United Methodist Church
It takes 5.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, 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.
- Food Insecurity: 25.9%
- Diabetes: 18.8%
- Obesity: 43.6%
- Social Isolation: 37.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.5%
- Poverty Rate: 23.5% (14.6–32.3%)
- Unemployment: 9.4% (0.4–18.6%)
- Child Poverty: 29.7% (13.2–47.8%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.4%
- Depression: 24.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Sims Chapel United Methodist Church
- Sims Chapel — 0.3 mi away
- Sims Chapel Holiness Church — 1.2 mi away
- Rivers Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Hill Spring Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away
- Trinity Church — 3.8 mi away
- Rivers Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away
- Charity Chapel Church — 4.1 mi away in Citronelle, AL
- Bethel Church — 4.4 mi away
- Magnolia Church — 4.4 mi away
- Saint Aaron Church — 4.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Bethel United Methodist Church — 6 mi away
- McIntosh United Methodist Church — 7.5 mi away
- Aldergate United Methodist Church — 7.9 mi away in Mount Vernon, AL
- Lang's Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 9 mi away
- Calvert United Methodist Church — 9.4 mi away