Greater Refuge Temple

Greater Refuge Temple is a Methodist church at 1317 Rowe Avenue in Jacksonville, FL 32208. It is one of 1,416 churches in Jacksonville, and one of 3 Methodist congregations in the city.

To evangelize the world for Jesus Christ; to equip ever believer to become a true disciple of Christ; and to engage those social problems that challenge the communities we have been called to serve.

1317 Rowe Avenue, Jacksonville, FL, 32208

Service times

  • Sunday 9am · Bible School Members Learning Class

Phone: (904) 768-4009 · Website: http://www.refugejax.org/

Greater Refuge Temple is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 932 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Florida — 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 Greater Refuge Temple

  • Clara White Mission
  • Summer Brook Health Care Facility
  • Ministry of Prayer

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The community around Greater Refuge Temple

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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.

  • Obesity: 46.3%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.4%
  • Poverty Rate: 30.0% (18.0–42.1%)
  • Diabetes: 22.0%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.1%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.0% (9.2–20.8%)
  • Child Poverty: 28.9% (9.8–48.0%)
  • Unemployment: 7.3% (0.6–14.2%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Jacksonville city is served by 807 churches — about one congregation for every 1,179 residents.

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