First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Union Springs, AL 36089. It is one of 74 churches in Union Springs, and one of 6 Methodist congregations in the city.
Union Springs, AL, 36089First 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 First United Methodist Church
It takes 4.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 70.3%
- Obesity: 54.3%
- Food Insecurity: 50.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 43.1%
- Social Isolation: 40.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 34.8%
- Poverty Rate: 33.7% (20.2–47.3%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 28.4%
- Diabetes: 25.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 25.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.1% (4.2–17.9%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Faith Independent Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Waymans African Methodist Episcopal Chapel — 0.2 mi away
- Eastside Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Derry's Chapel AME Zion Church — 0.3 mi away
- Pleasant Hill Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Pius X Catholic Mission — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Lukes Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Waymans African Methodist Episcopal Chapel — 0.2 mi away
- Saint John African Methodist Episcopal Church — 4.1 mi away
- Brown Grove United Methodist Church — 4.3 mi away
- Hardaway African Methodist Episcopal Church — 8.2 mi away
- Penile Methodist Church — 8.4 mi away
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