Free Methodist Church
Free Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Abilene, TX 79602. It is one of 211 churches in Abilene, and one of 11 Methodist congregations in the city.
Abilene, TX, 79602Free Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,579 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Texas — 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 Free Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, nearly a quarter of the people here live without health insurance. Nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 working-age adults live without health insurance. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 24.4% (17.5–31.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 21.8%
- Obesity: 38.5%
- Depression: 24.4%
- Poverty Rate: 19.5% (10.2–28.7%)
- Diabetes: 13.5%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Abilene city is served by 114 churches — about one congregation for every 1,038 residents.
Churches near Free Methodist Church
- South Park Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Harvest Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Abounding Fellowship — 0.3 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.3 mi away
- South 14th and Oak Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Aldersgate United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Belmont Baptist — 0.5 mi away
- Belmont Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Christian Fellowship Foursquare Church — 0.6 mi away
- Abundant Life Apostolic Ministries Church — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Aldersgate United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Portland Ave Free Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- St Paul United Methodist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Saint James United Methodist Church — 1.7 mi away