Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church
Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Ruston, LA 71270. It is one of 83 churches in Ruston, and one of 3 Methodist congregations in the city.
Ruston, LA, 71270Wesley Chapel 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 Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than 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.
- Child Poverty: 74.5%
- Poverty Rate: 57.7%
- Social Isolation: 41.7%
- Depression: 32.1%
- Food Insecurity: 32.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.2%
- Obesity: 42.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 21.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.9%
- Unemployment: 7.3% (0.0–17.2%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church
- Pleasant Hill Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away
- Springhill CME Church — 2.7 mi away
- Prosperity Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away
- Christ Temple Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away
- University Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
- Barnet Springs Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away
- DaySpring Baptist Ministry — 3.5 mi away
- South Parkway Worship Center — 3.5 mi away
- Life Church LA — 3.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Lewis Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 4.3 mi away in Grambling, LA
- Mays Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 4.5 mi away
- Trinity Methodist Church — 5.5 mi away
- Simsboro Grace Community Church — 7 mi away in Simsboro, LA
- Grace Methodist Church — 7.3 mi away