New Hope United Methodist Church
New Hope United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Van Buren, AR 72956. It is one of 81 churches in Van Buren, and one of 5 Methodist congregations in the city.
Van Buren, AR, 72956New Hope United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 538 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Arkansas — 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 Hope United Methodist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 42.3% (26.3–58.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.3%
- Food Insecurity: 27.3%
- Obesity: 40.7%
- Social Isolation: 36.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.8%
- Poverty Rate: 26.0% (16.4–35.6%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.9%
- Depression: 26.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.5%
- Diabetes: 14.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.5% (6.8–20.1%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.1%
- Unemployment: 7.7% (0.4–15.0%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near New Hope United Methodist Church
- Oak Grove Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bethesda Church — 1.1 mi away
- Reconcile Church — 1.6 mi away
- Pleasant Valley Church of Christ — 1.7 mi away
- Eastern Heights Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
- CrossPointe Church — 1.9 mi away
- Merge Church — 2.5 mi away
- Van Buren First Church of the Nazarene — 2.6 mi away
- Greater Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
- Living Hope Church — 2.8 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Mount Olive United Methodist Church - Food Distribution Center — 3.6 mi away
- Kibler Methodist Church — 3.7 mi away in Alma, AR
- Mount Olive United Methodist Church — 3.8 mi away
- Heritage United Methodist Church — 4 mi away
- City Heights United Methodist Church — 4.1 mi away
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