Epworth United Methodist Church
Epworth United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Council Bluffs, IA 51501. It is one of 119 churches in Council Bluffs, and one of 5 Methodist congregations in the city.
Council Bluffs, IA, 51501Epworth United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 743 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Iowa — 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 Epworth United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter have no one they feel they can count on. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 40.2%
- Social Isolation: 36.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.5%
- Food Insecurity: 16.4%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Council Bluffs city is served by 72 churches — about one congregation for every 791 residents.
Churches near Epworth United Methodist Church
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Family Church — 0.2 mi away
- Broadway Christian Church - Disciples of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Peace Church of the Brethren — 0.2 mi away
- CB Community Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church of God of Prophecy — 0.5 mi away
- Redeemer Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Lighthouse Missionary Church — 0.5 mi away
- Third Avenue church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- New Beginnings — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Fifth Avenue United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Broadway United Methodist Church — 2 mi away
- Dietz United Methodist Church — 2.8 mi away in Omaha, NE
- Saint Marks Methodist Church — 3.4 mi away
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