East Highland United Methodist Church
East Highland United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Columbus, GA 31901. It is one of 329 churches in Columbus, and one of 4 Methodist congregations in the city.
Columbus, GA, 31901East Highland 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 East Highland United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 25.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 21.0% (11.0–31.0%)
- Obesity: 42.1%
- Social Isolation: 38.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 20.3%
- Diabetes: 16.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.4%
- Unemployment: 8.7% (2.4–15.1%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.2%
- Poverty Rate: 21.1% (10.7–31.6%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Columbus city is served by 66 churches — about one congregation for every 3,099 residents.
Churches near East Highland United Methodist Church
- Eastern Heights Church — 0.1 mi away
- The Verge Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of the Living God — 0.2 mi away
- Body of Christ Worship Center — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia Casa de Salvación — 0.3 mi away
- Fountain City Church — 0.3 mi away
- Central Baptist Church of Columbus — 0.3 mi away
- Rose Hill Memorial Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Antioch Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- The Life Center — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint Paul UMC — 0.7 mi away
- Wynnton Church — 1.2 mi away
- Holsey Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.4 mi away
- Truth Spring — 1.4 mi away
- Holsey Chapel — 1.4 mi away