Plainfield United Methodist Church
Plainfield United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 214 Spencer St NE in Grand Rapids, MI 49505. It is one of 418 churches in Grand Rapids, and one of 3 Methodist congregations in the city.
Aldersgate's vision is to "Grow in Love, Seek Justice for all Creation."
Aldersgate United Methodist Church is a community where all are welcome to participate fully in the life of the congregation regardless of age, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, special needs, economic or marital status, or faith history.
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214 Spencer St NE, Grand Rapids, MI, 49505Service times
- Sunday 9:30am
Phone: (616) 649-3543 · Website: https://www.graldersgate.org/
Plainfield United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 846 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Michigan — 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 Plainfield United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults here carry depression. Nearly a quarter of 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.
- Depression: 32.5%
- Food Insecurity: 28.9%
- Obesity: 42.4%
- Social Isolation: 36.3%
- Child Poverty: 30.8% (16.8–46.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 21.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.1%
- Unemployment: 8.1% (1.8–14.3%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.6%
- Poverty Rate: 21.7% (13.3–30.1%)
- Transportation Barriers: 15.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Grand Rapids city is served by 313 churches — about one congregation for every 628 residents.
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