Wesley United Methodist Church
Wesley United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Akron, IA 51001. It is one of 8 churches in Akron.
Akron, IA, 51001Wesley United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 742 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Iowa — 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 Wesley United Methodist Church
It takes 5.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Obesity: 36.5%
- Social Isolation: 30.5%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Wesley United Methodist Church
- First Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Immanuel Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Patricks Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Horizons United Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Union Creek Church — 4.6 mi away
- Westfield Congregational Church — 5.4 mi away in Westfield, IA
- Pleasant Hill Chapel — 7.4 mi away
- Big Springs Baptist Church — 8.1 mi away in Alcester, SD
More Methodist churches nearby
- Adaville United Methodist Church — 9.4 mi away in Merrill, IA
- Hawarden United Methodist Church — 12.6 mi away in Hawarden, IA
- Methodist Church — 15.8 mi away in Ireton, IA
- United Methodist Church — 17.2 mi away in Merrill, IA
- First United Methodist Church — 19.2 mi away in Vermillion, SD