Epworth United Methodist Church
Epworth United Methodist Church is a church in Jesup, GA 31545. It is one of 80 churches in Jesup.
Jesup, GA, 31545Epworth 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 Epworth United 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 a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third 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.
- Food Insecurity: 25.6%
- Obesity: 44.5%
- Social Isolation: 37.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.2%
- Poverty Rate: 24.1% (14.9–33.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 20.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.1%
- Diabetes: 16.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.2% (8.8–21.6%)
- Unemployment: 9.9% (4.9–14.8%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Jesup city is served by 22 churches — about one congregation for every 276 residents.
Churches near Epworth United Methodist Church
- Jesup Primitive Baptist — 0.1 mi away
- First Free Will Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Antioch Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of God The Bibleway — 0.4 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.7 mi away
- New Hope Free Will Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Bennett Union Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Baptist of Jesup — 0.7 mi away
- First Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Mount Moriah Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Emory Chapel United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Middleton Memorial Methodist Church — 15.2 mi away in Ludowici, GA
- Milikin Methodist Church — 18.5 mi away in Surrency, GA