Whistler United Methodist Church
Whistler United Methodist Church is a church in Prichard, AL 36612. It is one of 86 churches in Prichard.
Prichard, AL, 36612Whistler 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 Whistler United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 93.1%
- Obesity: 51.1%
- Poverty Rate: 48.2% (34.0–62.3%)
- Food Insecurity: 47.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 31.9%
- Diabetes: 26.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 23.7%
- Unemployment: 12.9% (3.5–22.4%)
- Social Isolation: 39.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.2% (10.2–24.1%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.0%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Prichard city is served by 71 churches — about one congregation for every 293 residents.
Churches near Whistler United Methodist Church
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witnesses — 0.1 mi away
- Whatley Independent Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Allenville AOH Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Pilgrim Rest AME Zion Church — 0.5 mi away in Mobile, AL
- Bethany Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Third Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Blessings And Miracles Ministries — 0.6 mi away in Mobile, AL
- Saint Bridget Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away in Whistler, AL
- Mount Nebo Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- House Of Rescue Church Ministries — 0.6 mi away in Mobile, AL
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1 mi away
- Chickasaw Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away in Chickasaw, AL
- Greater Ruth African Methodist Episcopal Chapel — 1.5 mi away
- Mount Olive African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 1.7 mi away
- Crockett Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 2 mi away