Ashpole Center United Methodist Church
Ashpole Center United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church in Rowland, NC 28383. It is one of 36 churches in Rowland, and one of 2 United Methodist congregations in the city.
Rowland, NC, 28383Ashpole Center 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 Ashpole Center United Methodist Church
It takes 3.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Obesity: 49.8%
- Child Poverty: 43.4% (28.9–57.9%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.5%
- Food Insecurity: 33.6%
- Poverty Rate: 30.2% (22.4–38.0%)
- Diabetes: 21.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.1%
- Social Isolation: 33.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.8%
- Unemployment: 9.0% (4.1–14.0%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.3% (7.8–14.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Ashpole Center United Methodist Church
- Benson Church — 0.9 mi away
- Dogwood Church — 1.2 mi away
- New Bethel Church — 2.2 mi away in Fairmont, NC
- Greater Highway Church of Christ — 2.2 mi away
- Rowland United Methodist Church — 2.3 mi away
- Christian Fellowship Ministry of Rowland — 2.4 mi away
- Aaron Church — 2.4 mi away in Fairmont, NC
- New Hope United Methodist Church — 2.5 mi away
- St. Peter's Church — 2.7 mi away
- Mount Tabor Church — 2.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Rowland United Methodist Church — 2.3 mi away
- New Hope United Methodist Church — 2.5 mi away
- Centenary Church — 3.5 mi away
- Asbury Methodist Church — 4.1 mi away in Raynham, NC
- Hamer African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 6.3 mi away in Hamer, SC
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