Knowles Chapel United Methodist Church
Knowles Chapel United Methodist Church is a church in Sparta, GA 31087. It is one of 63 churches in Sparta.
Sparta, GA, 31087Knowles Chapel 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 Knowles Chapel United Methodist Church
It takes 5.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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: 77.3% (57.7–96.9%)
- Obesity: 46.3%
- Social Isolation: 40.9%
- Food Insecurity: 37.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.2%
- Poverty Rate: 35.0% (24.5–45.5%)
- Housing Insecurity: 27.8%
- Diabetes: 23.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.6%
- Unemployment: 6.8% (1.2–12.6%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Knowles Chapel United Methodist Church
- Shivers Grove Community Church — 1.2 mi away
- Sandy Run Church — 2 mi away
- Hancock Gospel Center — 2.5 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses — 2.5 mi away
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 3 mi away
- Harvesters Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
- Sparta Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
- Pierce Memorial United Methodist Church — 3.2 mi away
- Holsey Memorial CME Church — 3.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Pierce Memorial United Methodist Church — 3.2 mi away
- Zebulon Methodist Church — 3.6 mi away
- Hall Chapel AME Church — 5.9 mi away
- Smyrna United Methodist Church — 8.6 mi away
- Pine Hill United Methodist Church — 11.5 mi away