Thompson Centennial Methodist Church
Thompson Centennial Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 209 West Market Street in Anderson, SC 29624. It is one of 217 churches in Anderson, and one of 7 United Methodist congregations in the city.
209 West Market Street, Anderson, SC, 29624Thompson Centennial Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 898 congregations of the Methodist family gather across South Carolina — 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 Thompson Centennial Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. That is 2,100 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.
- Obesity: 47.6%
- Child Poverty: 47.2% (30.8–63.5%)
- Food Insecurity: 42.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.8%
- Poverty Rate: 33.9% (21.6–46.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 28.8%
- Diabetes: 22.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.7%
- Social Isolation: 39.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.9% (11.3–24.4%)
- Unemployment: 9.2% (2.8–15.7%)
- Depression: 26.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Anderson city is served by 48 churches — about one congregation for every 627 residents.
Churches near Thompson Centennial Methodist Church
- Total Life Restoration Ministries — 0.1 mi away in Iva, SC
- BOCIM.org — 0.1 mi away
- The Salvation Army — 0.2 mi away
- Baptist Saint Paul Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Johns United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- River of Life Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Church — 0.3 mi away
- Grace Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint Johns United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mt Carmel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.9 mi away
- Toxaway United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- West Anderson Church of God — 1.2 mi away
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