Oxnam Chapel
Oxnam Chapel is a United Methodist church at 4500 Massachusetts Ave NW in Washington, DC 20016-5632. It is one of 862 churches in Washington, and one of 3 United Methodist congregations in the city.
The mission of Wesley Theological Seminary (Wesley DC) is to equip persons for Christian ministry and leadership in the church and the world, to advance theological scholarship, and to model a prophetic voice in the public square.
4500 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC, 20016-5632Phone: (202) 727-6436 · Website: https://www.wesleyseminary.edu
Oxnam Chapel is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 60 congregations of the Methodist family gather across District of Columbia — 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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Upcoming events at Oxnam Chapel
- Tue, Sep 22 · 9:30 AM: Prospective Master’s Student In-person Open House: Welcome Table — Wesley Theological Seminary, 4500 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Wasshington, DC, 20016, United States
- Tue, Sep 22 · 11 AM: Oxnam Chapel Service 9-22-2026Hispanic Latinx Heritage Month Celebration | Rev. Alfredo Santiago preaching — Wesley Theological Seminary, 4500 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Wasshington, DC, 20016, United States
- Tue, Sep 29 · 11 AM: Oxnam Chapel Service 9-29-2026Rev. Drew Colby preaching — Wesley Theological Seminary, 4500 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Wasshington, DC, 20016, United States
- Thu, Oct 1 · 7 PM: Doctor of Ministry Q & A, Virtual Coffee Hour with Admissions — https://wesleyseminary.zoom.us/meeting/register/1l21l8KfQ0yoQwv7PfQzYw
- Mon, Oct 5 · 7 PM: Prospective Master’s Student Virtual Open House: “Window” on Wesley — https://wesleyseminary.zoom.us/meeting/register/2yoxXST_QZWJCPHNQXFckA#/registration
From Oxnam Chapel's public calendar (https://www.wesleyseminary.edu). Times are the church's local time.
The community around Oxnam Chapel
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 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is 2,300 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: 40.2%
- Unemployment: 8.2% (3.5–13.0%)
- Depression: 24.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Oxnam Chapel
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- Arabic Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Biblica Sublime Gracia — 0.3 mi away
- Restoration Church — 0.3 mi away
- Boy Scout Troop 666 — 0.4 mi away
- Metropolitan Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- National United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Presbyterian Federal Chaplaincies — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Metropolitan Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- National United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Luke's United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Wesley Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Walker Chapel United Methodist Church — 2.5 mi away in Arlington, VA
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