Brown Christian Methodist Episcopal Temple
Brown Christian Methodist Episcopal Temple is a church in Sheffield, AL 35660. It is one of 43 churches in Sheffield.
Sheffield, AL, 35660Brown Christian Methodist Episcopal Temple 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 Brown Christian Methodist Episcopal Temple
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third 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: 46.9% (29.7–64.6%)
- Obesity: 45.7%
- Poverty Rate: 37.4% (26.7–48.1%)
- Food Insecurity: 36.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.3%
- Diabetes: 21.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.3%
- Social Isolation: 38.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.2%
- Depression: 25.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.0%
- Unemployment: 6.6% (0.1–13.3%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Sheffield city is served by 34 churches — about one congregation for every 274 residents.
Churches near Brown Christian Methodist Episcopal Temple
- Healing Fountain Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- First Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Everdale Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Gaston Chapel Primitive Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Sterling Boulevard Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Cox Blvd Church of Christ — 0.7 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Southside Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Sheffield Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- First Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Highland Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.3 mi away in Tuscumbia, AL
- First Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away in Tuscumbia, AL