Melvin United Methodist Church
Melvin United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Cumberland, MD 21502. It is one of 103 churches in Cumberland, and one of 14 Methodist congregations in the city.
Cumberland, MD, 21502Melvin United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 933 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Maryland — 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 Melvin United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, about 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter 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 households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Unemployment: 13.7% (6.7–20.8%)
- Social Isolation: 34.7%
- Poverty Rate: 29.2% (19.2–39.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.2%
- Depression: 27.1%
- Food Insecurity: 23.4%
- Diabetes: 16.8%
- Obesity: 40.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.9%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Cumberland city is served by 40 churches — about one congregation for every 341 residents.
Churches near Melvin United Methodist Church
- Full Gospel Pentecostal Church — 0.3 mi away
- On Fire Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Metropolitan AME Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Marks United Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Cornerstone Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Town Clock Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Central United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Patrick Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Central United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Centre Street United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Fairview Avenue United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Bethel United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
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