Powelton Methodist Church
Powelton Methodist Church is a church in Sparta, GA 31087. It is one of 63 churches in Sparta.
Sparta, GA, 31087Powelton 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 Powelton Methodist Church
It takes 6.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about 2 in 3 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: 62.1% (42.8–81.4%)
- Obesity: 46.3%
- Social Isolation: 40.8%
- Food Insecurity: 35.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.3%
- Poverty Rate: 32.7% (23.2–42.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 26.8%
- Diabetes: 22.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.8%
- Unemployment: 7.0% (1.4–12.6%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Powelton Methodist Church
- Powelton Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Hope Powelton Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Antioch Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away in Crawfordville, GA
- Springfield Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away
- Apostolic Faith Church — 4.2 mi away
- Rocky Branch Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away in Norwood, GA
- Horeb Baptist Church — 4.6 mi away
- Union Missionary Baptist Church — 4.7 mi away
- New Haven Baptist Church — 5.3 mi away in Oneida, TN
- Smyrna United Methodist Church — 5.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Smyrna United Methodist Church — 5.7 mi away
- Prospect United Methodist Church — 8.2 mi away in Norwood, GA
- Crawfordville United Methodist Church — 9 mi away in Crawfordville, GA
- White Plains Methodist Church — 9.8 mi away in White Plains, GA
- Norwood United Methodist Church — 10.3 mi away in Norwood, GA