Boynton United Methodist Church
Boynton United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Gretna, LA 70053. It is one of 63 churches in Gretna.
Gretna, LA, 70053Boynton United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 432 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Louisiana — 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 Boynton United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, 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.
- Food Insecurity: 26.5%
- Obesity: 44.4%
- Social Isolation: 39.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.7%
- Poverty Rate: 22.7% (9.3–36.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 20.1%
- Diabetes: 15.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.9%
- Depression: 25.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.6% (2.3–24.8%)
- Transportation Barriers: 13.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Gretna city is served by 22 churches — about one congregation for every 1,019 residents.
Churches near Boynton United Methodist Church
- Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Joseph Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Regular Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christian Life Bible Church — 0.3 mi away
- Jefferson Parish Finance Department — 0.4 mi away
- Gretna Covenant Church — 0.5 mi away
- Faith Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Apostolic Faith Church — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Felicity Street Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away in New Orleans, LA
- Gretna United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Mount Sinai Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.9 mi away in Harvey, LA
- First Street United Methodist Church — 1.9 mi away in New Orleans, LA
- Saint Matthews Methodist Church — 2 mi away in New Orleans, LA