Wesley Center First Methodist Episcopal Church
Wesley Center First Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Oakland, CA 94606. It is one of 485 churches in Oakland, and one of 12 Methodist congregations in the city.
Oakland, CA, 94606Shares a ministry location with Korean United Methodist Church Oakland.
Wesley Center First Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 814 congregations of the Methodist family gather across California — 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 Wesley Center First Methodist Episcopal Church
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. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third have no one they feel they can count on. 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.
- Social Isolation: 40.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.4%
- Food Insecurity: 20.3%
- Unemployment: 8.2% (3.6–12.9%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Oakland city is served by 272 churches — about one congregation for every 1,609 residents.
Churches near Wesley Center First Methodist Episcopal Church
- Korean United Methodist Church Oakland — 0 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witnesses — 0.1 mi away
- Seventh Avenue Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bible Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia Universal — 0.1 mi away
- Victory Mission Church — 0.2 mi away
- Williams Chapel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Rice Temple — 0.3 mi away
- Mt. Hermon M.B.C. — 0.3 mi away
- Zide Door — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Lake Merritt United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Everett Chapel A.M.E. Church — 1.1 mi away
- Koe Siasi 'o Tonga — 1.1 mi away
- Chinese Community United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Good Shepherd Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
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