Walnut Grove Methodist Episcopal Church
Walnut Grove Methodist Episcopal Church is a church at 1600 Southwest Harrison Street in Topeka, KS 66612. It is one of 253 churches in Topeka.
1600 Southwest Harrison Street, Topeka, KS, 66612Walnut Grove Methodist Episcopal 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 Walnut Grove Methodist Episcopal Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 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 about 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: 46.1%
- Food Insecurity: 31.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.6%
- Social Isolation: 35.1%
- Child Poverty: 31.1% (13.3–48.9%)
- Poverty Rate: 29.9% (19.9–39.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 22.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.3% (11.0–23.5%)
- Diabetes: 15.8%
- Unemployment: 8.7% (3.0–14.4%)
- Depression: 25.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Topeka city is served by 131 churches — about one congregation for every 923 residents.
Churches near Walnut Grove Methodist Episcopal Church
- Open Arms Outreach Ministry — 0.2 mi away
- Abundance of Life Cathedral of Praise Church of God in Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Central Park Christian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Central United Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Heritage Park Wesleyan Church — 0.7 mi away
- El Shaddai Templo De Alabanza — 0.7 mi away
- Central Congregational Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.8 mi away
- Asbury Mount Olive United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Asbury Mount Olive United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Greater Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.9 mi away
- Saint John African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.9 mi away
- Topeka First United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- University United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away