Whiting United Methodist Church
Whiting United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Whiting, IN 46394. It is one of 10 churches in Whiting.
Whiting, IN, 46394Whiting United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 639 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Indiana — 25,985 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 Whiting United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is 2,100 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.
- Unemployment: 12.9% (7.6–18.3%)
- Obesity: 41.1%
- Social Isolation: 32.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.3%
- Food Insecurity: 24.5%
- Diabetes: 15.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.4%
- Poverty Rate: 19.9% (9.5–30.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 17.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.9% (6.6–21.2%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.4%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Whiting city is served by 8 churches — about one congregation for every 571 residents.
Churches near Whiting United Methodist Church
- Hungarian Reformed Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Mary's Byzantine Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- New Life Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Sacred Heart Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Whiting Church of the Nazarene — 0.3 mi away in Hammond, IN
- Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away in Hammond, IN
- Faith Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint John Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- East Side United Methodist Church — 2.3 mi away in Chicago, IL
- Hegewisch United Methodist Church — 3.2 mi away in Chicago, IL
- Metropolitan Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 3.3 mi away in East Chicago, IN
- St. Luke African Methodist Episcopal Church — 3.4 mi away in East Chicago, IN
- Saint Mark's African Methodist Episcopal Church — 3.7 mi away in East Chicago, IN