Wesley Foundation
Wesley Foundation is a Methodist church at 1196 South Lumpkin Street in Athens, GA 30605. It is one of 130 churches in Athens, and one of 4 Methodist congregations in the city.
The UGA Wesley Foundation exists to enable students to encounter God and become disciples of Jesus Christ.
The UGA Wesley Foundation is a place where students can encounter God, engage in life-giving community, and grow as disciples of Jesus Christ.
1196 South Lumpkin Street, Athens, GA, 30605Service times
- Wednesday 8pm
- Monday 8pm
Shares a ministry location with 5 Points Church and Riverpoint Church.
Wesley Foundation is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,458 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Georgia — 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 Wesley Foundation
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 the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Poverty Rate: 47.3% (32.6–62.1%)
- Social Isolation: 47.0%
- Unemployment: 13.0% (4.9–21.2%)
- Depression: 30.6%
- Food Insecurity: 23.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Athens-Clarke County unified government (balance) is served by 88 churches — about one congregation for every 1,398 residents.
Churches near Wesley Foundation
- Riverpoint Church — 0 mi away
- 5 Points Church — 0 mi away
- Presbyterian Student Center — 0.1 mi away
- Christus Victor Lutheran Church and Student Center — 0.1 mi away
- Catholic Student Center — 0.2 mi away
- Campus View Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- University Church — 0.5 mi away
- Baptist Collegiate Ministries — 0.6 mi away
- Christian Campus Fellowship — 0.6 mi away
- Phoenix Community of Athens — 0.8 mi away in Athens-Clarke County, GA
More Methodist churches nearby
- Oconee Street Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away in Athens-Clarke County, GA
- Athens First United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Saint James United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away in Athens-Clarke County, GA
- Young Harris Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away in Athens-Clarke County, GA
- Greater Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.4 mi away