Whitaker United Methodist Church
Whitaker United Methodist Church is a church in Slocomb, AL 36375. It is one of 36 churches in Slocomb.
Slocomb, AL, 36375Whitaker 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.
Find Whitaker United Methodist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Whitaker United Methodist Church
It takes 3.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Obesity: 40.9%
- Social Isolation: 34.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.7%
- Food Insecurity: 21.3%
- Diabetes: 16.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.1% (10.5–19.7%)
- Depression: 24.9%
- Poverty Rate: 17.7% (11.1–24.3%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Whitaker United Methodist Church
- Pleasant Grove Church — 1.8 mi away in Graceville, FL
- Wright Church — 2.1 mi away
- Antioch Church — 2.3 mi away
- New Teamon Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
- Noma Assemblies of God — 2.8 mi away in Noma, FL
- Selma Church — 2.8 mi away in Graceville, FL
- The Outpouring — 2.8 mi away in Graceville, FL
- Pleasant Grove Baptist Church — 3 mi away in Graceville, FL
- Liberty Hill Primitive Baptist Church — 3 mi away in Graceville, FL
- Lee Chapel — 3.4 mi away in Hartford, AL
More Methodist churches nearby
- Sardis Church — 6.5 mi away in Hartford, AL
- Sardis Church — 6.6 mi away in Hartford, AL
- East Mount Zion United Methodist Church — 6.9 mi away in Graceville, FL
- Red Hill United Methodist Church — 7 mi away in Bonifay, FL
- Hurricane Methodist Church — 7 mi away in Hartford, AL