Riverside United Methodist Church
Riverside United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Fort Dodge, IA 50501. It is one of 59 churches in Fort Dodge, and one of 5 Methodist congregations in the city.
Fort Dodge, IA, 50501Riverside 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 Riverside United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 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 more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 45.3%
- Social Isolation: 36.9%
- Poverty Rate: 22.8% (12.1–33.6%)
- Food Insecurity: 22.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.3%
- Diabetes: 13.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.1%
- Unemployment: 6.5% (2.3–10.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Fort Dodge city is served by 44 churches — about one congregation for every 367 residents.
Churches near Riverside United Methodist Church
- Full Gospel Lighthouse Church — 0.3 mi away
- Triumphant Church — 0.4 mi away
- Coppin Chapel - African Methodist Episcopal — 0.4 mi away
- First Covenant Church — 0.5 mi away
- Harvest Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Agape Kdm Church — 0.6 mi away
- Salvation Army Temple — 0.7 mi away
- Grace Lutheran Church — 0.7 mi away
- Church of Christ West Side — 0.8 mi away
- Christian Science Church — 0.8 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Coppin Chapel - African Methodist Episcopal — 0.4 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Epworth United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 2.1 mi away
- United Methodist Church — 5.6 mi away in Otho, IA