New United Methodist Church of Santa Cruz
New United Methodist Church of Santa Cruz is a Methodist church in Santa Cruz, CA 95060. It is one of 62 churches in Santa Cruz, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
Santa Cruz, CA, 95060New United Methodist Church of Santa Cruz 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 New United Methodist Church of Santa Cruz
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 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 nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,100 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: 37.4%
- Poverty Rate: 22.4% (16.0–28.9%)
- Depression: 25.2%
- Food Insecurity: 15.3%
- Unemployment: 6.2% (0.7–11.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Santa Cruz city is served by 30 churches — about one congregation for every 1,831 residents.
Churches near New United Methodist Church of Santa Cruz
- First United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Elevation — 0.4 mi away
- Christian Life Center — 0.4 mi away
- Word of Life Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
- The Circle Church — 0.5 mi away
- Garfield Park Christian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Santa Cruz Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Progressive Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- PMBC Church — 0.5 mi away
- Calvary Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Aptos Community United Methodist Church — 8.9 mi away in Aptos, CA
- Boulder Creek United Methodist Church — 11.7 mi away in Boulder Creek, CA
- First United Methodist Church of Watsonville — 15.6 mi away in Watsonville, CA
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