New Light UM Church
New Light UM Church is a United Methodist church at 1037 Russellville Rd in St. Stephen, SC 29479.
1037 Russellville Rd, St. Stephen, SC, 29479Phone: (843) 567-9843 · Website: https://www.umcsc.org
New Light UM 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 New Light UM Church
It takes 3.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Child Poverty: 48.6% (29.9–67.6%)
- Obesity: 47.9%
- Food Insecurity: 34.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.6%
- Poverty Rate: 32.4% (20.5–44.3%)
- Diabetes: 23.5%
- Social Isolation: 33.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 22.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.4% (6.8–22.0%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near New Light UM Church
- St Stephen United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away in St Stephen, SC
- First Baptist Ch St Stephen — 0.4 mi away in St Stephen, SC
- Church of God — 0.4 mi away in St Stephen, SC
- St Stephen Evangelical Church — 0.6 mi away in St Stephen, SC
- Allen AME Church — 0.6 mi away in St Stephen, SC
- Saint Stephen Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away in Saint Stephen, SC
- Refuge Temple St Stephen — 0.7 mi away in St Stephen, SC
- Bryant Chapel — 0.7 mi away in Saint Stephen, SC
- Saint Stephens Episcopal Church — 0.8 mi away in Saint Stephen, SC
- Harristown Road Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away in St Stephen, SC
More Methodist churches nearby
- Jehovah Church — 5.9 mi away in Pineville, SC
- Jerusalem African Methodist Episcopal Church — 7.2 mi away in Lane, SC
- Hopes Chapel United Methodist Church — 8.7 mi away in Bonneau, SC
- Lane Chapel — 9.1 mi away in Lane, SC
- Hoods Chapel Methodist Church — 9.3 mi away in Bonneau, SC
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