Fifth Avenue United Methodist Church
Fifth Avenue United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 2622 West 5th Avenue in Gary, IN 46404. It is one of 275 churches in Gary, and one of 8 Methodist congregations in the city.
2622 West 5th Avenue, Gary, IN, 46404Fifth Avenue 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 Fifth Avenue United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 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 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,200 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: 50.4%
- Food Insecurity: 36.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.6%
- Diabetes: 22.4%
- Social Isolation: 37.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.0%
- Poverty Rate: 23.1% (7.9–38.4%)
- Transportation Barriers: 17.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.8% (7.4–24.4%)
- Unemployment: 8.4% (2.4–14.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Gary city is served by 184 churches — about one congregation for every 375 residents.
Churches near Fifth Avenue United Methodist Church
- Grace and Truth Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Great Band Church — 0.1 mi away
- Temple Penecostal Nueva — 0.1 mi away
- Open Door Church of God Refuge In Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Andrew African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.5 mi away
- Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Saint John Lutheran Church — 0.7 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses--Tolleston — 0.7 mi away
- Spirit of God Fellowship East — 0.7 mi away
- First Spiritualist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint Andrew African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Lukes African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 1.6 mi away
- Bethlehem African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 1.8 mi away
- Delaney Memorial United Methodist Church — 2.2 mi away
- First African Methodist Episcopal Church — 2.3 mi away