Gretna United Methodist Church
Gretna United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 1309 Whitney Ave in Gretna, LA 70056-5025. It is one of 63 churches in Gretna.
Gretna United Methodist Church is a welcoming, diverse church in Gretna, Louisiana, just minutes from New Orleans.
1309 Whitney Ave, Gretna, LA, 70056-5025Service times
- Sunday 10am
Phone: (504) 366-6685 · Website: https://www.gretnaumc.org/
Gretna United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 449 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Louisiana — 25,985 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.
Ministries at Gretna United Methodist Church
- Children's Ministry
- Preschool
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The community around Gretna United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, 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 two thousand 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: 31.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.7% (12.7–28.8%)
- Social Isolation: 39.4%
- Child Poverty: 37.0% (23.7–53.4%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.0%
- Poverty Rate: 25.0% (15.0–35.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 23.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.6%
- Diabetes: 17.3%
- Depression: 25.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.3%
- Unemployment: 7.7% (3.3–12.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Gretna United Methodist Church
- Beacon Light of Haiti at New Orleans — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Gretna — 0.2 mi away
- Heaven's Harvest — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Impact Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Household of Faith — 0.6 mi away
- Light of Christ Church — 0.7 mi away
- Ecclesia Family Church — 0.7 mi away
- Faith Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Heritage Bible Church — 0.7 mi away
- Church of God Ministries International — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Iglesia Bautista Horeb — 0.9 mi away
- Boynton United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Mount Sinai Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.8 mi away in Harvey, LA
- Felicity Street Methodist Church — 2.8 mi away in New Orleans, LA
- Saint James United Methodist Church — 2.9 mi away in Marrero, LA