Free Methodist Church
Free Methodist Church is a Methodist church in La Junta, CO 81050. It is one of 29 churches in La Junta, and one of 3 Methodist congregations in the city.
La Junta, CO, 81050Free Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 190 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Colorado — 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 about a mile of this church, nearly a quarter of working-age adults live without health insurance. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.3%
- Child Poverty: 39.2% (21.0–57.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.3%
- Poverty Rate: 26.1% (16.9–35.3%)
- Depression: 23.1%
- Diabetes: 14.4%
- Unemployment: 7.4% (2.3–12.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
La Junta city is served by 20 churches — about one congregation for every 233 residents.
Churches near Free Methodist Church
- Carson Avenue Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- La Junta Baptist Tabernacle — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- The United Methodist Church of La Junta — 0.2 mi away
- First Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Church La Junta — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Church of Christ, Scientist — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- The United Methodist Church of La Junta — 0.2 mi away
- First Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Hubbard Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 10.8 mi away in Rocky Ford, CO
- Las Animas Methodist Church — 18.5 mi away in Las Animas, CO