Zoar United Methodist Church
Zoar United Methodist Church is a church in Baxley, GA 31513. It is one of 79 churches in Baxley.
Baxley, GA, 31513Zoar United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,414 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Georgia — 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 Zoar United Methodist Church
It takes 4.8 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 more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 42.7% (24.5–61.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.7%
- Food Insecurity: 27.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 23.3% (15.0–31.6%)
- Obesity: 41.7%
- Social Isolation: 37.2%
- Poverty Rate: 29.6% (17.3–41.8%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.1%
- Diabetes: 17.5%
- Depression: 23.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.4%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Zoar United Methodist Church
- Zoar Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Big Oak Church — 2.1 mi away
- Bethel Free Will Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away
- Sand Hill Creek Free Will Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away
- Morgan Chapel Missionary Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away
- Satilla Freewill Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away in Hazlehurst, GA
- Harvest Temple Church of God — 4.4 mi away
- Bridgeford Church of God — 5.1 mi away in Hazlehurst, GA
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 5.1 mi away
- Morgan Chapel Missionary Baptist Church — 5.1 mi away in Graham, GA
More Methodist churches nearby
- Crosby Chapel United Methodist Church — 6.1 mi away
- New Hope Congregational Methodist Church — 7.9 mi away in Alma, GA
- Springfield Methodist Church — 9.1 mi away in Alma, GA
- Hazlehurst First United Methodist Church — 9.4 mi away in Hazlehurst, GA
- First United Methodist Church — 9.8 mi away