Newman United Methodist Church
Newman United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Alexandria, LA 71301. It is one of 179 churches in Alexandria, and one of 8 Methodist congregations in the city.
Alexandria, LA, 71301Newman United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 432 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Louisiana — 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 Newman United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 51.5%
- Food Insecurity: 48.3%
- Social Isolation: 43.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 42.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.8%
- Poverty Rate: 37.1% (23.0–51.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 33.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 28.5%
- Diabetes: 25.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 24.1%
- Child Poverty: 35.7% (20.7–54.6%)
- Unemployment: 11.6% (3.6–19.7%)
- Depression: 25.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.
Alexandria city is served by 101 churches — about one congregation for every 303 residents.
Churches near Newman United Methodist Church
- Saint James Memorial Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Rose of Sharon Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Union Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Magnolia Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Greater New Hope Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Young Temple COGIC — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Triumph Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Second Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Wilton United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 1 mi away in Pineville, LA
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.4 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
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