Wayland United Methodist Church
Wayland United Methodist Church is a church in Wayland, KY 41666. It is one of 4 churches in Wayland.
Wayland, KY, 41666Wayland United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 339 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Kentucky — 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 Wayland United Methodist Church
It takes 3.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults here carry depression. 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.6%
- Obesity: 40.8%
- Depression: 30.5%
- Poverty Rate: 28.6% (18.0–39.3%)
- Diabetes: 17.4%
- Unemployment: 8.0% (1.0–15.2%)
- Child Poverty: 24.7% (9.7–41.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Wayland city is served by 2 churches — about one congregation for every 1,155 residents.
Churches near Wayland United Methodist Church
- Zion Deliverance Church — 0.3 mi away
- Martin Branch Free Will Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Steel Creek Regular Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Little Union Church — 2.2 mi away in Garrett, KY
- Stonecoal Church — 2.3 mi away in Garrett, KY
- Garrett Church of God — 2.5 mi away in Garrett, KY
- Garrett First Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away in Garrett, KY
- Caney Fork Old Regular Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
- Rock Fork Bible Church — 3 mi away in Garrett, KY
- Cross Ridge Baptist Church — 3 mi away in Minnie, KY
More Methodist churches nearby
- Grace Way United Methodist Church — 5.9 mi away
- Hindman Methodist Church — 12 mi away in Hindman, KY
- Wesley United Methodist — 12.3 mi away
- Aldersgate Church — 14 mi away
- St James Episcopal Church — 15.1 mi away in Prestonsburg, KY