Free Methodist Church
Free Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Chico, CA 95926. It is one of 89 churches in Chico, and one of 3 Methodist congregations in the city.
Chico, CA, 95926Free Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 814 congregations of the Methodist family gather across California — 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 Free Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Social Isolation: 40.4%
- Poverty Rate: 38.5% (28.0–49.1%)
- Depression: 30.9%
- Food Insecurity: 24.4%
- Unemployment: 10.2% (5.7–14.9%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Chico city is served by 31 churches — about one congregation for every 2,977 residents.
Churches near Free Methodist Church
- The Esplanade Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Chico — 0.3 mi away
- Four Square Church — 0.5 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Bidwell Memorial Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Faith Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 0.6 mi away
- Victory Chapel Chico — 0.7 mi away
- Matthew's Cafe Community Church — 0.7 mi away
- Cornerstone Ministries Church of God in Chico — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Trinity Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Aldersgate United Methodist Church — 2.1 mi away
- Durham Community-United Methodist Church — 6.8 mi away in Durham, CA
- First United Methodist Church — 21.8 mi away in Corning, CA
- First Methodist Church — 22 mi away in Oroville, CA