Willard Street United Methodist Church
Willard Street United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 175 North Willard Street in Ottumwa, IA 52501. It is one of 70 churches in Ottumwa, and one of 3 United Methodist congregations in the city.
175 North Willard Street, Ottumwa, IA, 52501Willard Street 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 Willard Street United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,100 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: 43.9%
- Child Poverty: 39.0% (23.6–54.8%)
- Social Isolation: 36.2%
- Poverty Rate: 26.9% (18.0–35.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.5%
- Food Insecurity: 21.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.9%
- Diabetes: 14.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.9%
- Unemployment: 7.3% (1.8–12.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Ottumwa city is served by 48 churches — about one congregation for every 285 residents.
Churches near Willard Street United Methodist Church
- Saint Patricks Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Ottumwa Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- FPAG — 0.2 mi away
- Plymouth Congergational United Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Pentecostal Assembly of God Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of God Prophecy — 0.2 mi away
- Davis Street Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Evangelistic Foursquare Church — 0.4 mi away
- Ottumwa Baptist Temple — 0.5 mi away
- Life Church — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Pennsylvania Avenue Free Methodist Church — 2.3 mi away
- Grace Ottumwa — 5.4 mi away
- Agency United Methodist Church — 6.3 mi away in Agency, IA