Wesley United Methodist Church
Wesley United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church in Ottumwa, IA 52501. It is one of 70 churches in Ottumwa, and one of 3 United Methodist congregations in the city.
Ottumwa, IA, 52501Wesley 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
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 43.5%
- Social Isolation: 36.0%
- Poverty Rate: 22.1% (13.2–31.1%)
- Food Insecurity: 21.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.1%
- Child Poverty: 25.9% (13.1–39.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.9%
- Diabetes: 13.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Ottumwa city is served by 48 churches — about one congregation for every 285 residents.
Churches near Wesley United Methodist Church
- Heartland Assembly of God — 0.1 mi away
- First Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Jubilee Bible Church — 0.2 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- St. Mary of the Visitation — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- The Bridge Church - Ottumwa Campus — 0.4 mi away
- The Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Pennsylvania Avenue Free Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Willard Street United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Grace Ottumwa — 4.6 mi away
- Agency United Methodist Church — 5.5 mi away in Agency, IA