Gilchrist Methodist Church
Gilchrist Methodist Church is a church in Waycross, GA 31503. It is one of 163 churches in Waycross.
Waycross, GA, 31503Gilchrist 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 Gilchrist Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, 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 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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.
- Obesity: 49.2%
- Child Poverty: 48.2% (30.2–66.2%)
- Social Isolation: 41.9%
- Food Insecurity: 40.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.4%
- Poverty Rate: 36.0% (22.0–50.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 30.5%
- Diabetes: 22.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.0% (11.5–28.5%)
- Unemployment: 10.0% (1.5–18.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Waycross city is served by 69 churches — about one congregation for every 161 residents.
Churches near Gilchrist Methodist Church
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Gilchrist Park Church of God of Prophecy — 0.2 mi away
- Full Gospel Mission — 0.2 mi away
- Our Beloved Church Bethesda House of Mercy — 0.4 mi away
- Foundation Church — 0.4 mi away
- River Of Life Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- ReGeneration Teens — 0.5 mi away
- Brunel Street Church of God — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Peters Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Hosanna Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Little Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.9 mi away
- Austin Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.9 mi away
- Gaines Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.3 mi away
- First Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away
- King Solomon Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.6 mi away