Wesley United Methodist Church
Wesley United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in New Orleans, LA 70113. It is one of 824 churches in New Orleans, and one of 44 Methodist congregations in the city.
New Orleans, LA, 70113Wesley 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 Wesley 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 nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 50.0%
- Poverty Rate: 46.0% (28.9–63.1%)
- Social Isolation: 44.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 38.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 36.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 30.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 25.1%
- Diabetes: 23.6%
- Unemployment: 14.9% (5.7–24.5%)
- Obesity: 44.1%
- Depression: 28.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.0% (7.7–30.2%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
New Orleans city is served by 579 churches — about one congregation for every 657 residents.
Churches near Wesley United Methodist Church
- Saint John Missionary Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Corinthian Missionary Baptist Church Number 2 — 0 mi away
- Greater St Stephen Full Gospel Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- True Love Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Fifth Church of Christ Scientist — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Ararat Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- United House of Prayer — 0.1 mi away
- Back To the Bible Christian Fellowship Church — 0.1 mi away
- Second Mount Everest Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Peoples United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Union Bethel AME Church — 0.3 mi away
- Grrene-Primm Education Building — 0.3 mi away
- First Street United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Zion United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
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