Central Free Methodist Church
Central Free Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Shreveport, LA 71103. It is one of 535 churches in Shreveport, and one of 17 Methodist congregations in the city.
Shreveport, LA, 71103Central Free 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 Central Free 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: 50.9%
- Food Insecurity: 46.3%
- Social Isolation: 40.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.2%
- Poverty Rate: 38.9% (25.4–52.4%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 31.7%
- Diabetes: 27.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.3%
- Unemployment: 19.8% (9.1–30.5%)
- Transportation Barriers: 21.9%
- Depression: 23.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Shreveport city is served by 224 churches — about one congregation for every 690 residents.
Churches near Central Free Methodist Church
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Augustine Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Star Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Prince of Peace Christian Center — 0.2 mi away
- Goodwill Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Pleasant Hill Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Mary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Church in the Name of Jesus Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Faith Tabernacle Revival Center — 0.3 mi away
- West Chapel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Westside Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 1 mi away
- New Hope Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.8 mi away
- First Methodist Church Shreveport — 1.8 mi away
- Noel Memorial UMC — 2.5 mi away
- Lakeview United Methodist Church — 2.5 mi away
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