Lake Merritt United Methodist Church
Lake Merritt United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 1330 Lakeshore Avenue in Oakland, CA 94606. It is one of 392 churches in Oakland, and one of 12 Methodist congregations in the city.
We strive to live and love like Jesus, to foster authentic connection and unconditional belonging, and to make a difference for the most vulnerable among us.
Lake Merritt United Methodist Church is an inclusive Christian community feeding the spiritual and physical hunger of Oakland:
1330 Lakeshore Avenue, Oakland, CA, 94606Service times
- Sunday 10:15am · worship begins
Phone: (510) 465-4793 · Website: http://www.lakemerrittumc.org/
Lake Merritt United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 840 congregations of the Methodist family gather across California — 25,989 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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Latest from Lake Merritt United Methodist Church, Oakland, CA's YouTube channel: November 1, 2026 Lake Merritt United Methodist Church Sunday Worship (all videos).
The community around Lake Merritt United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter have no one they feel they can count on, and about 1 in 5 the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand 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: 37.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.0%
- Poverty Rate: 17.2% (10.6–23.8%)
- Food Insecurity: 15.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Oakland city is served by 272 churches — about one congregation for every 1,609 residents.
Churches near Lake Merritt United Methodist Church
- Lakeside Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Regeneration Church — 0.2 mi away
- Lakeside Temple of Practical Christianity — 0.3 mi away
- Victory Outreach Oakland — 0.3 mi away
- Faith Chinese Alliance Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint George Serbian Orthodox Church — 0.4 mi away
- Victory Mission Church — 0.4 mi away
- Wesley Center First Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Seventh Avenue Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Korean United Methodist Church Oakland — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Wesley Center First Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Korean United Methodist Church Oakland — 0.5 mi away
- Chinese Community United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Lake Park United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Coopers African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 1.5 mi away
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