Waresboro First United Methodist Church
Waresboro First United Methodist Church is a church in Waycross, GA 31503. It is one of 163 churches in Waycross.
Waycross, GA, 31503Waresboro 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 Waresboro First United Methodist Church
It takes 3.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Social Isolation: 39.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.8%
- Food Insecurity: 22.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.3% (12.6–26.0%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.4%
- Obesity: 39.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.4%
- Diabetes: 14.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Waresboro First United Methodist Church
- Pine View Church — 1.9 mi away
- Pineview Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Full Gospel Assembly Church — 2.5 mi away
- Pine Valley Church — 3.7 mi away
- Ezekiel Church — 4 mi away
- Lion Of Judah Church Of God In Christ Inc — 4 mi away
- Acts 29 Church Unto God — 4 mi away
- Sweat Memorial Church — 4 mi away
- Friendship Freewill Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away
- Bible Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Kettle Creek Southern Congregational Methodist Church — 4.9 mi away
- Winona Park United Methodist Church — 5.4 mi away
- Hebardville Methodist Episcopal Church — 6.2 mi away
- Greater Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church — 6.8 mi away
- Jordan New Congregational Methodist Church — 6.9 mi away