First Evangelical Methodist Church
First Evangelical Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Shreveport, LA 71106. It is one of 535 churches in Shreveport, and one of 17 Methodist congregations in the city.
Shreveport, LA, 71106First Evangelical Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 449 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Louisiana — 25,985 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 First Evangelical Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Food Insecurity: 55.3%
- Obesity: 53.2%
- Social Isolation: 44.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 41.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 40.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 39.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 33.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 27.5%
- Diabetes: 22.7%
- Poverty Rate: 29.2% (17.3–41.1%)
- Depression: 27.5%
- Child Poverty: 29.0% (11.5–46.6%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.9%
- Unemployment: 6.8% (1.7–12.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Shreveport city is served by 224 churches — about one congregation for every 690 residents.
Churches near First Evangelical Methodist Church
- Avenue Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- The Redeemed Christian Church of God, Goshen — 0.4 mi away
- Cullen Haymon Memorial United Pentecostal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Union Springs Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- The church of Christ At Hearne Avenue — 0.5 mi away
- Real Life Community Church — 0.5 mi away
- Bryants Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Word of Life Church — 0.7 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Springs of Grace Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Morningside United Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Miles Chapel Church — 1.5 mi away
- Fairfield United Methodist Church — 2 mi away
- Caddo Heights United Methodist Church — 2 mi away
- Jewella Methodist Church — 2.4 mi away
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