Pinckney United Methodist Church
Pinckney United Methodist Church is a church in Folkston, GA 31537. It is one of 30 churches in Folkston.
Folkston, GA, 31537Pinckney 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 Pinckney United Methodist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 52.4% (33.2–71.6%)
- Obesity: 45.4%
- Social Isolation: 40.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.0%
- Food Insecurity: 32.7%
- Diabetes: 21.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.2% (12.9–27.5%)
- Poverty Rate: 28.5% (18.9–38.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 23.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.1%
- Unemployment: 11.7% (2.6–20.9%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.5%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Folkston city is served by 12 churches — about one congregation for every 350 residents.
Churches near Pinckney United Methodist Church
- Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Matthews Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Folkston Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 0.6 mi away
- Victory Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Mount Carmel Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Jerusalem Holiness Church — 0.8 mi away
- St. Francis of Assisi — 0.9 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Folkston Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bethel Methodist Church — 4.3 mi away
- Oak Hill United Methodist Church — 13.9 mi away
- Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church — 18.6 mi away in Kingsland, GA
- =Kingsland First United Methodist Church — 18.8 mi away in Kingsland, GA