New Era United Methodist Church
New Era United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Emerson, AR 71740. It is one of 26 churches in Emerson, and one of 3 Methodist congregations in the city.
Emerson, AR, 71740New Era United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 538 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Arkansas — 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 New Era United Methodist Church
It takes 5.0 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 a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 34.4%
- Food Insecurity: 31.0%
- Diabetes: 20.7%
- Obesity: 44.0%
- Social Isolation: 35.5%
- Child Poverty: 30.4% (13.8–48.0%)
- Depression: 27.6%
- Poverty Rate: 27.4% (17.2–37.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 20.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.9%
- Unemployment: 11.4% (2.0–21.4%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near New Era United Methodist Church
- Antioch Church — 0.9 mi away
- Western Missionary Church — 1.9 mi away
- Old Shongaloo Church — 3.1 mi away
- Dorcheat Acres Church — 4 mi away in Springhill, LA
- Pine Grove Church — 4.2 mi away in Taylor, AR
- Walnut Road Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away in Springhill, LA
- Spring Branch Church — 4.7 mi away in Taylor, AR
- Full Gospel Church — 4.9 mi away in Springhill, LA
- Doss Chapel — 4.9 mi away
- Washington Chapel — 5.2 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Welcome United Methodist Church — 6.2 mi away in Taylor, AR
- Springhill United Methodist Church — 6.5 mi away in Springhill, LA
- Mount Pisgah United Methodist Church — 7.8 mi away
- Harmony United Methodist Church — 8.3 mi away in Magnolia, AR
- Philadelphia United Methodist Church — 12.1 mi away in Magnolia, AR