Shelton's Chapel Methodist Church
Shelton's Chapel Methodist Church is a church in Lumber City, GA 31549. It is one of 12 churches in Lumber City.
Lumber City, GA, 31549Shelton's Chapel 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 Shelton's Chapel Methodist Church
It takes 4.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Child Poverty: 51.1% (36.9–65.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.9%
- Food Insecurity: 34.2%
- Poverty Rate: 31.1% (17.8–44.4%)
- Diabetes: 20.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.5% (12.6–28.3%)
- Obesity: 44.2%
- Social Isolation: 39.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 21.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Shelton's Chapel Methodist Church
- Fishing Creek Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Green Grove Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away
- Saint Matthews Church — 4.1 mi away in Hazlehurst, GA
- Mount Calvary Church — 4.5 mi away in McRae-Helena, GA
- Mimbs Church — 4.9 mi away in McRae-Helena, GA
- Saint James Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 4.9 mi away
- Full Gospel Church of God — 5 mi away
- Lumber City United Methodist Church — 5.1 mi away
- Dodge's Chapel — 5.2 mi away
- Lumber City Church of God — 5.2 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint James Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 4.9 mi away
- Lumber City United Methodist Church — 5.1 mi away
- Spring Hill Methodist Church — 8 mi away
- Hazlehurst First United Methodist Church — 9.8 mi away in Hazlehurst, GA
- Shiloh Methodist Church — 10.5 mi away
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