Alabama Avenue Methodist Church
Alabama Avenue Methodist Church is a church in Selma, AL 36703. It is one of 155 churches in Selma.
Selma, AL, 36703Alabama Avenue 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 Alabama Avenue Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 52.9%
- Food Insecurity: 51.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 43.4%
- Social Isolation: 42.7%
- Poverty Rate: 39.9% (28.8–51.1%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 35.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 29.0%
- Diabetes: 27.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 25.5%
- Unemployment: 25.0% (8.6–41.5%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.6% (6.8–26.4%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Selma city is served by 37 churches — about one congregation for every 367 residents.
Churches near Alabama Avenue Methodist Church
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Arrat Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Timothy Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mt. Ararat Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Alabama Avenue Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Macedonia Apostolic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Second Baptist Church of Selma — 0.4 mi away
- Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- Church of the Living God — 0.5 mi away
- Ellwood Community Church — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Brown Chapel AME Church;Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Clinton African Methodist Episcopal Zion Chapel — 0.8 mi away
- Church Street United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Methodist Memorial Church — 1.3 mi away
- Saint Pauls Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.3 mi away