Riverdale First United Methodist Church
Riverdale First United Methodist Church is a church in Riverdale, GA 30274. It is one of 67 churches in Riverdale.
Riverdale, GA, 30274Riverdale First 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 Riverdale First United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,200 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.
- Obesity: 46.7%
- Social Isolation: 45.3%
- Food Insecurity: 36.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 30.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.1%
- Diabetes: 17.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.2% (8.5–23.9%)
- Poverty Rate: 19.4% (10.4–28.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Riverdale city is served by 2 churches — about one congregation for every 1,515 residents.
Churches near Riverdale First United Methodist Church
- Word Of Faith — 0.1 mi away
- Lakewin Christian Center — 0.1 mi away
- Victory in Christ Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Upon This Rock Faith Ministry — 0.3 mi away
- AGM Christian Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Gilead Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Church Of Atlanta — 0.4 mi away in College Park, GA
- Power For Living Ministries — 0.4 mi away
- Redeemed Christian Church of God Fountain of Life Parish — 0.5 mi away
- Union Grove Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- College Park Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 3.9 mi away in Atlanta, GA
- Friendship United Methodist Church — 4.3 mi away in Fayetteville, GA
- Morrow Methodist Church — 4.5 mi away in Morrow, GA
- Forest Park United Methodist Church — 4.8 mi away in Forest Park, GA
- Hopeville United Methodist Church — 5.3 mi away in Atlanta, GA