Oak Park United Methodist
Oak Park United Methodist is a Methodist church at 5505 South 31st Street in Temple, TX 76502. It is one of 118 churches in Temple, and one of 4 Methodist congregations in the city.
5505 South 31st Street, Temple, TX, 76502Oak Park United Methodist 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 Oak Park United Methodist
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes. That is 2,200 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: 42.7%
- Diabetes: 16.2%
- Unemployment: 10.4% (2.4–18.5%)
- Depression: 25.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Temple city is served by 53 churches — about one congregation for every 1,319 residents.
Churches near Oak Park United Methodist
- Temple First Church of the Nazarene — 0.6 mi away
- The Vine Church — 0.7 mi away
- Taylors Valley Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- The Way Student Ministry at TVBC — 0.9 mi away
- St. Francis' Episcopal Church — 1 mi away
- Canyon Creek Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Iglesia Cristiana Monte Horeb of Temple — 1 mi away
- Covenant Lutheran Church — 1.3 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 1.4 mi away
- Memorial Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint Paul United Methodist Church — 2.8 mi away
- Bethel Independent Methodist Church — 4.1 mi away
- Little River United Methodist Church — 4.3 mi away in Little River-Academy, TX
- First Methodist Church Temple — 4.4 mi away
- El Divino Salvador Methodist Church — 4.4 mi away