Leicester United Methodist Church
Leicester United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church in Leicester, NC 28748. It is one of 29 churches in Leicester, and one of 6 United Methodist congregations in the city.
Leicester, NC, 28748Leicester United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,294 congregations of the Methodist family gather across North Carolina — 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 Leicester United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, nearly a quarter of the people here live without health insurance. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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.
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 24.7% (12.7–36.6%)
- Social Isolation: 32.4%
- Depression: 26.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.1%
- Food Insecurity: 17.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.0%
- Diabetes: 13.0%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Leicester United Methodist Church
- Bell United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Alexander Baptist Chapel — 0.5 mi away
- Newfound Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Blessed Hill Church — 1.4 mi away
- Slavic Pentecostal Church — 1.4 mi away
- Crossroads Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Leicester Baptist Church — 2 mi away
- Highland Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
- Brick Church — 2.1 mi away
- Community Chapel Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Bell United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 3.1 mi away
- Dix Creek Chapel United Methodist Church — 3.2 mi away in Asheville, NC
- Western Chapel United Methodist Church — 3.8 mi away
- Payne's Chapel — 5.2 mi away
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