Wares Chapel United Methodist Church
Wares Chapel 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, 71740Wares Chapel 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 Wares Chapel United Methodist Church
It takes 5.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 46.2% (34.7–58.5%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.1%
- Poverty Rate: 33.8% (24.9–42.7%)
- Food Insecurity: 33.0%
- Diabetes: 21.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.8%
- Obesity: 44.4%
- Social Isolation: 36.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 22.5%
- Depression: 25.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.5%
- Unemployment: 6.8% (1.0–12.7%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Wares Chapel United Methodist Church
- New Hope Number 1 Church — 2.8 mi away
- Mount Hebron Church — 4.3 mi away in Haynesville, LA
- Piney Grove Church — 4.4 mi away
- Mount Bethel Church — 4.5 mi away
- Union Ark Church — 5.6 mi away
- Mount Pleasant Church — 5.7 mi away in Haynesville, LA
- Mt Pleasant Baptist Church — 5.7 mi away in Haynesville, LA
- Mount Israel Church — 5.8 mi away
- United Pentecostal Church — 5.9 mi away in Haynesville, LA
- Haynesville United Pentecostal Church — 6 mi away in Haynesville, LA
More Methodist churches nearby
- Mount Pisgah United Methodist Church — 9.8 mi away
- Christie Chapel United Methodist Church — 13.1 mi away in Magnolia, AR
- Fredonia Methodist Church — 13.8 mi away in El Dorado, AR
- Marysville United Methodist Church — 14.9 mi away in Magnolia, AR
- Pleasant Grove Methodist Church — 15.1 mi away in El Dorado, AR