Derby United Methodist Church
Derby United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Derby, CT 06418. It is one of 13 churches in Derby.
Derby, CT, 06418Derby United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 145 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Connecticut — 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 Derby 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 of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter 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: 35.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.5%
- Food Insecurity: 16.2%
- Unemployment: 7.4% (2.8–12.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Derby city is served by 10 churches — about one congregation for every 1,237 residents.
Churches near Derby United Methodist Church
- Second Congregational Church of Derby — 0.1 mi away
- Immanuel Saint James Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Marys Church — 0.1 mi away
- Our Lady Queen of the Apostles Parish — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia De Dios Nuevos Comienzos — 0.1 mi away
- New Life Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- Walnut Hill Community Church Valley Campus — 0.5 mi away
- Restoration Church — 0.5 mi away in Shelton, CT
- First Congregational Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Josephs Church — 0.5 mi away in Shelton, CT
More Methodist churches nearby
- Clinton African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 1.4 mi away in Ansonia, CT
- First United Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away in Ansonia, CT
- First United Methodist Church — 2.6 mi away in Shelton, CT
- Great Hill — 3.2 mi away in Seymour, CT
- Great Hill United Methodist Church — 4.2 mi away in Seymour, CT