Pleasant Ridge United Methodist Church
Pleasant Ridge United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Samson, AL 36477. It is one of 32 churches in Samson.
Samson, AL, 36477Pleasant Ridge 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 Pleasant Ridge United Methodist Church
It takes 2.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.8%
- Food Insecurity: 26.0%
- Diabetes: 19.0%
- Obesity: 44.6%
- Social Isolation: 34.6%
- Poverty Rate: 23.2% (13.6–32.8%)
- Depression: 26.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.9% (6.3–17.5%)
- Unemployment: 7.4% (2.7–12.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Pleasant Ridge United Methodist Church
- New Prospect Church — 2.3 mi away
- Eden Missionary Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away in Coffee Springs, AL
- Leddon Church — 2.6 mi away
- Church of Peace — 2.7 mi away in Geneva, AL
- Long Branch Church — 2.8 mi away in Geneva, AL
- Friendship Baptist Church — 4.1 mi away
- Geneva Worship Center — 4.2 mi away in Geneva, AL
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 4.3 mi away in Geneva, AL
- Westside United Methodist Church — 4.5 mi away in Geneva, AL
- Sellersville Church — 4.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Westside United Methodist Church — 4.5 mi away in Geneva, AL
- Westside United Methodist Church — 4.5 mi away in Geneva, AL
- New Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 5.5 mi away in Geneva, AL
- First Methodist Church — 5.9 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 6.2 mi away in Geneva, AL