Benham United Methodist Church
Benham United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church in Benham, KY 40807.
Benham, KY, 40807Benham United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 342 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Kentucky — 25,989 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 Benham United Methodist Church
It takes 2.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Obesity: 45.6%
- Poverty Rate: 37.7% (26.0–49.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.7%
- Diabetes: 19.2%
- Unemployment: 14.5% (5.9–23.1%)
- Depression: 30.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Benham United Methodist Church
- Resurrection Catholic Church — 2.2 mi away in Lynch, KY
- Saint Stephen Catholic Church — 2.2 mi away in Cumberland, KY
- Central Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away in Cumberland, KY
- Tri City Pentecostal Church — 2.3 mi away in Cumberland, KY
- Cumberland Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away in Cumberland, KY
- Cumberland United Methodist Church — 2.6 mi away in Cumberland, KY
- Poor Fork Old Regular Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away in Cumberland, KY
- Cumberland Church of God — 2.7 mi away in Cumberland, KY
- Four Square Church — 3.8 mi away
- Hurricane Gap Church — 4.9 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Cumberland United Methodist Church — 2.6 mi away in Cumberland, KY
- Appalachia United Methodist Church — 10 mi away in Appalachia, VA
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 11.9 mi away in Big Stone Gap, VA
- Saint Charles Methodist Church — 12.2 mi away
- Seminary United Methodist Church — 12.3 mi away in Big Stone Gap, VA