Ray Avenue United Methodist Church
Ray Avenue United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in New Orleans, LA 70126. It is one of 824 churches in New Orleans, and one of 44 Methodist congregations in the city.
New Orleans, LA, 70126Ray Avenue 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.
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The community around Ray Avenue 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 half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 47.1%
- Social Isolation: 44.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 39.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 34.4%
- Poverty Rate: 31.7% (16.1–47.3%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 28.6%
- Diabetes: 24.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 23.3%
- Unemployment: 14.1% (2.2–26.0%)
- Obesity: 43.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.9% (2.8–28.9%)
- Depression: 26.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
New Orleans city is served by 579 churches — about one congregation for every 657 residents.
Churches near Ray Avenue United Methodist Church
- Lower Light Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Greater Bright Morning Star — 0.2 mi away
- Gentilly Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Anchor of Hope Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Rosedale Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Paul the Apostle Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Sovereign Hope Apostolic Fellowship" SHAF" — 0.3 mi away
- Ray Avenue Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Gloryland Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Next Level In Christ Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Bethany United Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Gentilly United Methodist Church — 2.4 mi away
- Saint Luke African Methodist Episcopal Church — 2.6 mi away
- John Wesley United Methodist Church — 2.8 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 2.8 mi away
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