Claxton First United Methodist Church
Claxton First United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church in Claxton, GA 30417. It is one of 35 churches in Claxton.
Claxton, GA, 30417Claxton First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,458 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Georgia — 25,985 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 Claxton First United Methodist Church
It takes 3.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the children here are growing up 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.
- Obesity: 42.5%
- Social Isolation: 38.4%
- Child Poverty: 32.6% (17.3–48.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.1%
- Food Insecurity: 24.9%
- Diabetes: 18.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.7% (11.0–22.4%)
- Poverty Rate: 20.4% (13.8–27.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 18.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Claxton First United Methodist Church
- First Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Claxton Primitive Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First African Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Rehoboth Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Thomas Grove African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- United House of Prayer For All People — 0.3 mi away
- GraceTruth Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Johns Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Eastside Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Thomas Grove African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Hagan First Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away in Hagan, GA
- Bible Holiness Church — 1.4 mi away in Hagan, GA
- Daisy Methodist Church — 4.3 mi away in Daisy, GA
- Union United Methodist Church — 4.4 mi away