Antioch United Methodist Church
Antioch United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Ruston, LA 71270. It is one of 83 churches in Ruston, and one of 3 Methodist congregations in the city.
Ruston, LA, 71270Antioch 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 Antioch United Methodist Church
It takes 3.2 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 nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than 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: 46.0%
- Social Isolation: 41.2%
- Poverty Rate: 34.3% (24.0–44.6%)
- Food Insecurity: 34.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.2%
- Child Poverty: 38.8% (25.7–52.0%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.0%
- Depression: 27.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.0%
- Diabetes: 14.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Antioch United Methodist Church
- Greenwood Church — 2.9 mi away
- Mount Olive Baptist Church of Grambling — 3.2 mi away
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away in Grambling, LA
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away in Dubach, LA
- Community Enrichment Group — 4 mi away in Grambling, LA
- Grambling Church of God & Christ — 4 mi away in Grambling, LA
- New Rocky Valley Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away in Grambling, LA
- Saint Benedict Catholic Church — 4.2 mi away in Grambling, LA
- Bissic-Whittaker Christian Center — 4.3 mi away in Grambling, LA
- Walnut Creek Church — 4.4 mi away in Simsboro, LA
More Methodist churches nearby
- Simsboro Grace Community Church — 4.4 mi away in Simsboro, LA
- Lewis Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 4.4 mi away in Grambling, LA
- Salem United Methodist Church — 4.9 mi away in Dubach, LA
- Grace Methodist Church — 5.9 mi away
- Trinity Methodist Church — 6.2 mi away