Kansas Avenue United Methodist Church
Kansas Avenue United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 1531 North Kansas Avenue in Topeka, KS 66608. It is one of 253 churches in Topeka, and one of 14 Methodist congregations in the city.
1531 North Kansas Avenue, Topeka, KS, 66608Kansas Avenue United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 349 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Kansas — 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 Kansas Avenue United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 44.2%
- Social Isolation: 32.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.7%
- Food Insecurity: 23.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.4% (9.7–23.0%)
- Diabetes: 15.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.1%
- Unemployment: 8.7% (2.8–14.7%)
- Depression: 25.7%
- Poverty Rate: 17.2% (11.1–23.4%)
- Housing Insecurity: 17.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Topeka city is served by 131 churches — about one congregation for every 923 residents.
Churches near Kansas Avenue United Methodist Church
- Christ's Church — 0.1 mi away
- Gethsemane Church of God In Christ — 0.2 mi away
- North Topeka Wesleyan Church — 0.3 mi away
- Destiny Revival Ministries Int'l — 0.4 mi away
- Imago Dei — 0.4 mi away
- The Way Topeka — 0.4 mi away
- Calvary Church — 0.4 mi away
- Calvary Church of God In Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Kansas Avenue United Methodist — 0.5 mi away
- Family of God Church — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Kansas Avenue United Methodist — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Mark African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.8 mi away
- Oakland United Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Topeka First United Methodist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Saint John African Methodist Episcopal Church — 2 mi away