Candler Methodist Church
Candler Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Gainesville, GA 30507. It is one of 181 churches in Gainesville, and one of 6 Methodist congregations in the city.
Gainesville, GA, 30507Candler 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 Candler Methodist Church
Within about a mile of 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 more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 45.1% (28.1–62.1%)
- Social Isolation: 40.2%
- Food Insecurity: 31.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 30.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.5%
- Poverty Rate: 22.6% (11.4–33.8%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.7% (10.6–20.8%)
- Obesity: 37.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.3%
- Diabetes: 14.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.8%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Candler Methodist Church
- Hopewell Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Cross Plains Church — 1.4 mi away
- Comunidad Bautista Latinoamericana — 1.7 mi away
- Belmont Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
- Sugar Hill Church — 2.4 mi away
- Gainesville Church of Christ — 2.5 mi away
- Mercy Church — 3 mi away
- Los Pentecostales de Gainesville — 3.2 mi away
- Poplar Springs Church — 3.2 mi away
- Oak Grove Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Chicopee United Methodist Church — 4.6 mi away
- United Methodist Church of Oakwood — 5.9 mi away in Oakwood, GA
- Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church — 6.2 mi away
- Saint Paul United Methodist Church — 6.6 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 6.7 mi away
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