West Helena United Methodist Church
West Helena United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Helena-West Helena, AR 72390. It is one of 36 churches in Helena-West Helena, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
Helena-West Helena, AR, 72390West Helena United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 543 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Arkansas — 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 West Helena United Methodist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand 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.
- Child Poverty: 55.4%
- Obesity: 51.4%
- Food Insecurity: 40.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.8%
- Poverty Rate: 37.3% (27.4–47.3%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 29.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.4%
- Diabetes: 22.6%
- Unemployment: 18.4% (5.6–31.2%)
- Social Isolation: 39.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Helena-West Helena city is served by 22 churches — about one congregation for every 67 residents.
Churches near West Helena United Methodist Church
- Greater Power House Cogic — 0.1 mi away in West Helena, AR
- West Helena Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of God of Prophecy — 0.3 mi away
- West Helena Church of the Nazarene — 0.3 mi away
- Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away in West Helena, AR
- Hope Church — 0.6 mi away in West Helena, AR
- Helena-West Helena 2nd Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Faith Outreach Church — 0.8 mi away in West Helena, AR
More Methodist churches nearby
- Carter Chapel — 3 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 3.1 mi away
- Lula United Methodist Church — 11.3 mi away in Lula, MS
- First United Methodist Church of Marianna — 17.1 mi away in Marianna, AR
- Saint Luke African Methodist Episcopal Church — 17.3 mi away in Marianna, AR
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