Buford Street United Methodist Church
Buford Street United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 120 East Buford Street in Gaffney, SC 29340. It is one of 107 churches in Gaffney, and one of 4 United Methodist congregations in the city.
120 East Buford Street, Gaffney, SC, 29340Website: https://www.bufordstumc.org/
Buford Street United 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 Buford Street United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third 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 households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 59.9%
- Food Insecurity: 34.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.4%
- Diabetes: 19.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.3%
- Obesity: 44.1%
- Social Isolation: 36.6%
- Poverty Rate: 28.8% (20.9–36.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 24.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.5%
- Unemployment: 9.0% (3.4–14.5%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.7%
- Depression: 23.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.5% (8.2–18.7%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Gaffney city is served by 30 churches — about one congregation for every 436 residents.
Churches near Buford Street United Methodist Church
- Limestone Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Gaffney First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Dunton United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Episcopal Church of the Incarnation — 0.3 mi away
- Innov8tion Point — 0.3 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mission of Grace — 0.4 mi away
- Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Sacred Heart Church — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Dunton United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.4 mi away
- Limestone Street United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saint John United Methodist Church — 8.2 mi away in Blacksburg, SC
- Bethel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 8.5 mi away in Blacksburg, SC
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