United Methodist Church of Merced
United Methodist Church of Merced is a Methodist church at 899 East Yosemite PKWY in Merced, CA 95340. It is one of 117 churches in Merced.
899 East Yosemite PKWY, Merced, CA, 95340United Methodist Church of Merced is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 840 congregations of the Methodist family gather across California — 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 United Methodist Church of Merced
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Child Poverty: 49.3% (31.5–67.2%)
- Food Insecurity: 40.4%
- Social Isolation: 40.2%
- Poverty Rate: 38.9% (28.9–48.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 30.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.0%
- Diabetes: 15.8%
- Unemployment: 10.9% (5.3–16.6%)
- Obesity: 39.2%
- Depression: 23.7%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Merced city is served by 56 churches — about one congregation for every 1,054 residents.
Churches near United Methodist Church of Merced
- First Assembly Of God — 0.3 mi away
- New Hope Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Church Of Christ Scientist — 0.3 mi away
- Eastside Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Christian Church Of The Valley — 0.3 mi away
- Landmark Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- River Worship Center — 0.4 mi away
- Grace Community Church — 0.4 mi away
- Foursquare Gospel — 0.4 mi away
- Merced Living Word — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Lifespring Church — 1.1 mi away
- African Methodist Episcopal Zion — 1.5 mi away
- Atwater United Methodist Church — 8.9 mi away in Atwater, CA
- Le Grand Methodist Church — 12.5 mi away in Le Grand, CA
- Livingston United Methodist Church — 14.7 mi away in Livingston, CA