Oakland United Methodist Church
Oakland United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Hamer, SC 29547. It is one of 18 churches in Hamer.
Hamer, SC, 29547Oakland United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 853 congregations of the Methodist family gather across South 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 Oakland United Methodist Church
It takes 3.5 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 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. 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: 47.5%
- Food Insecurity: 34.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.4%
- Diabetes: 20.9%
- Social Isolation: 36.4%
- Child Poverty: 31.5% (20.3–42.6%)
- Poverty Rate: 26.7% (19.7–33.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 24.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.3% (13.5–23.1%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.1%
- Unemployment: 9.6% (2.0–17.2%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Oakland United Methodist Church
- State Line Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Lukes Church — 1.6 mi away
- New Saint Marks Church — 2.4 mi away in Rowland, NC
- Magnolia Stateline AME Church — 2.9 mi away
- Fairview Church — 2.9 mi away
- Beulah Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away
- Ashpole Presbyterian Church — 3.2 mi away in Rowland, NC
- Southern Grove Church — 3.4 mi away in Maxton, NC
- Mount Pelier Church — 3.7 mi away in Rowland, NC
- Remnants Refuge Fellowship — 3.7 mi away in Rowland, NC
More Methodist churches nearby
- New Hope United Methodist Church — 4 mi away in Rowland, NC
- Rowland United Methodist Church — 4.2 mi away in Rowland, NC
- Hamer African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 4.5 mi away
- St. Paul's Methodist Church — 4.8 mi away in Dillon, SC
- McCoy Chapel — 5.1 mi away
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