Centennial United Methodist Church
Centennial United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Gary, IN 46402. It is one of 275 churches in Gary, and one of 8 Methodist congregations in the city.
Gary, IN, 46402Centennial United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 618 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Indiana — 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 Centennial United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 8 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. More than half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 86.0%
- Obesity: 56.2%
- Food Insecurity: 51.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 43.3%
- Poverty Rate: 37.1% (22.4–51.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 34.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 33.4%
- Diabetes: 28.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 24.8%
- Social Isolation: 37.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.9%
- Unemployment: 12.0% (2.3–22.4%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.1%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Gary city is served by 184 churches — about one congregation for every 375 residents.
Churches near Centennial United Methodist Church
- Saints Monica and Luke Church — 0.2 mi away
- Progressive Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- Progressive Mb Church — 0.2 mi away
- Agape Ministries Inc. — 0.3 mi away
- New Divine Truth Apostolic Church — 0.6 mi away
- Galilee Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Zion Progressive Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Delaney Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Unity Outreach Ministries — 0.7 mi away
- Abandoned Central City Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Delaney Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Lukes African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 1.1 mi away
- Allen Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.1 mi away
- First African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.2 mi away
- Bethlehem African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 1.3 mi away