United Methodist Church
United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Emerson, IA 51533. It is one of 6 churches in Emerson.
Emerson, IA, 51533United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 742 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Iowa — 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 United Methodist Church
It takes 7.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Obesity: 39.7%
- Social Isolation: 30.4%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near United Methodist Church
- Citylight Southwest Iowa — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Wales United Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Hawthorne Church — 3.5 mi away in Red Oak, IA
- Champion Hill Church — 3.6 mi away
- Oaks Church — 4.8 mi away
- Strahan United Methodist Church — 7 mi away
- Saint Johns Church — 8.1 mi away
- United Methodist Church — 8.5 mi away in Henderson, IA
- Henderson Christian Church — 8.5 mi away in Henderson, IA
More Methodist churches nearby
- Strahan United Methodist Church — 7 mi away
- United Methodist Church — 8.5 mi away in Henderson, IA
- First United Methodist Church — 9.2 mi away in Red Oak, IA
- United Methodist Church — 9.6 mi away in Malvern, IA
- United Methodist Church — 12.2 mi away in Macedonia, IA