Free Methodist Church
Free Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Santa Barbara, CA 93109. It is one of 111 churches in Santa Barbara, and one of 4 Methodist congregations in the city.
Santa Barbara, CA, 93109Free 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 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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: 34.3%
- Depression: 23.6%
- Poverty Rate: 19.5% (11.3–27.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Santa Barbara city is served by 44 churches — about one congregation for every 1,925 residents.
Churches near Free Methodist Church
- Holy Cross Church — 0.3 mi away
- Shoreline Community Church — 1 mi away
- Oasis Christian Center — 1 mi away
- Grace Church of Santa Barbara — 1 mi away
- Iglesia de Cristo — 1.2 mi away
- Church of the Open Bible — 1.2 mi away
- St. Vladimir Orthodox Church — 1.4 mi away
- Church of Christ — 1.4 mi away
- Iglesia el Calvario Santa Barbara CA — 1.5 mi away
- Redeemer Bible Church Santa Barbara — 1.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Lewis Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.8 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 2 mi away
- Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church — 2.1 mi away
- University U.M. Church — 8.5 mi away in Isla Vista, CA
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