Thornton United Methodist Church
Thornton United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in WV 26440.
WV, 26440Thornton United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 687 congregations of the Methodist family gather across West Virginia — 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.
Find Thornton United Methodist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Thornton United Methodist Church
It takes 2.9 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 adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of adults here carry depression. 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: 43.0%
- Social Isolation: 33.0%
- Depression: 31.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.2%
- Diabetes: 16.8%
- Unemployment: 11.5% (3.8–19.2%)
- Food Insecurity: 18.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Thornton United Methodist Church
- Bethany Church — 0.8 mi away
- Wilson Ridge Church of Christ — 1.9 mi away in Grafton, WV
- Maple Run Church — 2.1 mi away
- Shaws Chapel — 2.6 mi away in Grafton, WV
- Haymond United Methodist Church — 2.6 mi away in Grafton, WV
- Mount Pleasant United Methodist Church — 3.1 mi away
- Blueville Church of Christ — 3.1 mi away in Grafton, WV
- Blueville United Methodist Church — 3.2 mi away in Grafton, WV
- Shiloh Church — 3.3 mi away in Grafton, WV
- Blueville Church of the Nazarene — 3.3 mi away in Grafton, WV
More Methodist churches nearby
- Haymond United Methodist Church — 2.6 mi away in Grafton, WV
- Mount Pleasant United Methodist Church — 3.1 mi away
- Blueville United Methodist Church — 3.2 mi away in Grafton, WV
- Evansville United Methodist Church — 3.6 mi away
- Bethel United Methodist Church — 3.6 mi away