Gilboa Methodist Church
Gilboa Methodist Church is a church at 740 Gilboa Church Road in Rutherfordton, NC 28139. It is one of 55 churches in Rutherfordton.
740 Gilboa Church Road, Rutherfordton, NC, 28139Gilboa 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 Gilboa Methodist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter 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.
- Depression: 27.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.6%
- Poverty Rate: 22.1% (12.4–31.9%)
- Diabetes: 16.0%
- Obesity: 39.7%
- Social Isolation: 31.3%
- Child Poverty: 23.2% (9.7–38.2%)
- Food Insecurity: 19.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.6% (6.7–20.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Gilboa Methodist Church
- Rutherford Church of Christ — 1.1 mi away
- Mountain Creek Church — 1.3 mi away
- Gilkey United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Gold Hill Church — 1.3 mi away
- Gilkey Church of God Parsonage — 1.3 mi away
- Pilgrims Way Badptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Little White Country Church — 1.8 mi away
- Oak Springs Church — 2.5 mi away
- Calvary Church — 2.6 mi away
- Piney Ridge Church — 2.8 mi away in Union Mills, NC
More Methodist churches nearby
- Gilkey United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away
- First Methodist Church — 3.9 mi away
- Union Hill AME Zion Church — 4.3 mi away in Union Mills, NC
- Spindale United Methodist Church — 5.4 mi away in Spindale, NC
- Thermal City Methodist Church — 6.4 mi away in Union Mills, NC
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