North Highlands United Methodist Church
North Highlands United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 835 Poleman Road in Shreveport, LA 71107. It is one of 535 churches in Shreveport, and one of 17 Methodist congregations in the city.
835 Poleman Road, Shreveport, LA, 71107North Highlands United 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 North Highlands United 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. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand 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: 35.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.0%
- Diabetes: 18.7%
- Obesity: 44.7%
- Social Isolation: 39.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.6%
- Poverty Rate: 26.5% (17.3–35.7%)
- Transportation Barriers: 17.8%
- Unemployment: 8.7% (2.7–15.1%)
- Depression: 26.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Shreveport city is served by 224 churches — about one congregation for every 690 residents.
Churches near North Highlands United Methodist Church
- Trinity Heights Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Andrew Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Atmosphere Of Worship — 0.6 mi away
- Bossier Zo Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Northview Assembly of God — 0.6 mi away
- Church of Christ North — 0.7 mi away
- Emmanuel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Light Hill Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Saint Pius X Catholic Church — 1.4 mi away
- Temple of Christ Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint Luke Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 2.5 mi away
- Round Grove United Methodist Church — 3.6 mi away
- Asbury United Methodist Church — 4.2 mi away in Bossier City, LA
- First Methodist Church Shreveport — 4.6 mi away
- Central Free Methodist Church — 4.9 mi away
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