Shepherd of the Valley Methodist Church
Shepherd of the Valley Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 3039 West Cactus Road in Phoenix, AZ 85029. It is one of 987 churches in Phoenix, and one of 16 Methodist congregations in the city.
Our Mission is to ... FEED God’s people—providing opportunities to grow in faith. TEND God’s people—serving all with acts of love and compassion. SEND God’s people—living joy-filled lives through Christ.
In the valley since 1961, it won't take you long to discover that we are truly a family! Growing together, we worship, we serve, we laugh, we cry, we learn, and we reach out to our world with life transforming truth.
3039 West Cactus Road, Phoenix, AZ, 85029Service times
- Thursday 4pm · noon-
Phone: (602) 942-9288 · Website: http://www.shepherdofthevalleyphoenix.org/
Shepherd of the Valley Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 104 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Arizona — 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 Shepherd of the Valley Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance. That is 2,300 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 35.1%
- Food Insecurity: 23.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.9% (11.2–26.5%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.1%
- Poverty Rate: 19.5% (11.8–27.2%)
- Housing Insecurity: 16.5%
- Unemployment: 6.7% (2.6–10.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Phoenix city is served by 448 churches — about one congregation for every 3,544 residents.
Churches near Shepherd of the Valley Methodist Church
- Larkspur Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Iglesia De Cristo Dulce Presencia — 0.4 mi away
- Iglesia El Buen Samaritano — 0.4 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witnesses of Alta Vista — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Andrews Evangelical Luteran Church — 0.5 mi away
- CalvaryPHX Church — 0.5 mi away
- Straight Paths Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Victory Outreach North Phoenix — 0.6 mi away
- CalvaryPHX - Student Ministries — 0.6 mi away
- Capilla Calvario Phoenix — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Faith United Methodist Church — 2.6 mi away
- Grace Evangelical Methodist Church — 3.8 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 3.9 mi away
- Murphy Community African Methodist Episcopal Church — 4.2 mi away
- Cross Roads United Methodist Church — 4.3 mi away