Back River United Methodist Church
Back River United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Essex, MD 21221. It is one of 49 churches in Essex, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
Back River United Methodist ChurchA Church that is making a Holy Impact on the World
Essex, MD, 21221Phone: (410) 686-4195 · Website: http://www.backriverumc.com/
Back River United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 964 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Maryland — 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 Back River United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About 1 in 5 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 37.0%
- Food Insecurity: 21.8%
- Obesity: 37.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.8%
- Diabetes: 13.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.2%
- Unemployment: 6.3% (0.9–12.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Back River United Methodist Church
- New Testament Christian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Hope Evagelical Lutheran Church — 0.8 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Back River — 1.5 mi away
- Kingston Church — 1.5 mi away in Middle River, MD
- Faith Deliverance Watchman Ministries & Church — 1.7 mi away
- LifeImpact Church — 1.7 mi away
- Saint Stephen's African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.7 mi away
- Ssame Church — 1.7 mi away
- Iglesia la luz verdadera — 1.8 mi away
- Universal Gospel Tabernacle — 1.8 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint Stephen's African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.7 mi away
- Churches For Soh — 2.3 mi away
- Essex United Methodist Church — 2.4 mi away
- Orems Church — 2.7 mi away in Middle River, MD
- Piney Grove Umc — 3.5 mi away in Middle River, MD