West View Heights United Methodist Church
West View Heights United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Ozark, AL 36360. It is one of 74 churches in Ozark, and one of 9 Methodist congregations in the city.
Ozark, AL, 36360West View Heights 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 West View Heights United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand 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: 54.7% (40.0–69.3%)
- Obesity: 48.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.6%
- Food Insecurity: 35.5%
- Poverty Rate: 34.6%
- Diabetes: 21.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.2%
- Unemployment: 14.5% (6.1–22.9%)
- Social Isolation: 38.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.9%
- Depression: 25.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.8%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Ozark city is served by 22 churches — about one congregation for every 313 residents.
Churches near West View Heights United Methodist Church
- Saint John Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- St. Michael's Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Claybank Church — 0.8 mi away
- Ridgecrest Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.8 mi away
- Church Of God By Faith Inc — 0.8 mi away
- Lively Stones Ministries — 1 mi away
- Pentecostal Church Tree of Life Inc. — 1 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- St. Michael's Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away
- First United Methodist Church of Ozark — 1.3 mi away
- Pleasant Hill United Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Friendship AME Church — 5 mi away