Shepard United Methodist Church
Shepard United Methodist Church is a church in Columbus, OH 43219. It is one of 1,053 churches in Columbus.
Columbus, OH, 43219Shepard United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,596 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Ohio — 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 Shepard United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,200 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.
- Social Isolation: 42.2%
- Food Insecurity: 32.0%
- Diabetes: 19.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.9%
- Obesity: 42.1%
- Child Poverty: 31.4% (17.2–45.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.8%
- Poverty Rate: 25.4% (15.3–35.5%)
- Housing Insecurity: 23.6%
- Unemployment: 9.3% (2.9–15.8%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.4%
- Depression: 24.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Columbus city is served by 545 churches — about one congregation for every 1,492 residents.
Churches near Shepard United Methodist Church
- Independent Missionary Church of God in Christ — 0 mi away
- Christ Community Church — 0 mi away
- Strong Tower Church of Christ — 0 mi away
- Apostolic Faith Tabernacle — 0.1 mi away
- Deliverance Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Loving Charity Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Harvest Time Church — 0.1 mi away
- Rosedale International — 0.2 mi away
- Manna From on High Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Sinai Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Lee Avenue United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Asbury United Methodist Church North — 1.3 mi away
- Woodland Christian Church — 1.3 mi away
- Bexley United Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away in Bexley, OH
- St Mark AME Church — 1.6 mi away