Grand Avenue United Methodist Church
Grand Avenue United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 776 West Grand Avenue in Porterville, CA 93257. It is one of 88 churches in Porterville, and one of 2 United Methodist congregations in the city.
The church continues to hold fast to the dreams and purposes of its founders that Jesus Christ is the head of the church and the foundation upon which it stands.
Grand Avenue has a rich history that goes back all the way to June 19, 1899 when the congregation was organized as the Emanuel Church of the Evangelical Association.
776 West Grand Avenue, Porterville, CA, 93257Service times
- Sunday 10am
Phone: (559) 784-3791 · Website: http://www.grandavenue.org/
Shares a ministry location with La Mision De Jesus.
Grand Avenue United Methodist 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.
Ministries at Grand Avenue United Methodist Church
- Children's Ministries
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The community around Grand Avenue United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.4%
- Food Insecurity: 28.0%
- Social Isolation: 37.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 22.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.7%
- Child Poverty: 26.8% (9.8–43.8%)
- Poverty Rate: 20.9% (10.8–31.1%)
- Transportation Barriers: 14.2%
- Diabetes: 13.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.7%
- Unemployment: 7.8% (1.5–14.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Porterville city is served by 39 churches — about one congregation for every 1,512 residents.
Churches near Grand Avenue United Methodist Church
- La Mision De Jesus — 0 mi away
- Country Salvation Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bethesda Lutheran Communities — 0.2 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.2 mi away
- Porterville Spanish Sda — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Cornerstone Assembly of God — 0.7 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.7 mi away
- Family Life Church Porterville — 0.7 mi away
- CDA Cristo te Ama Porterville — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Lindsay United Methodist Church — 9.2 mi away in Lindsay, CA
- Springville United Methodist Church — 12.6 mi away in Springville, CA
- Tipton United Methodist Church — 15.5 mi away in Tipton, CA
- Evangelical Methodist Church — 16.1 mi away in Exeter, CA
- Exeter United Methodist Church — 16.3 mi away in Exeter, CA
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