Essex United Methodist Church
Essex United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 524 Maryland Avenue in Essex, MD 21221. It is one of 49 churches in Essex, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
524 Maryland Avenue, Essex, MD, 21221Essex United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 964 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Maryland — 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 Essex United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter have no one they feel they can count on, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 35.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.6%
- Depression: 23.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.6%
- Food Insecurity: 17.9%
- Diabetes: 14.2%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Essex United Methodist Church
- New Life Sanctuary Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Victorious Living Faith Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Joy Overflow International Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Covenant Br'it Ministries — 0.2 mi away in Baltimore, MD
- Levi Webb Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Saint John's Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Ni Cristo — 0.3 mi away
- Essex Assembly of God Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Churches For Soh — 0.9 mi away
- Saint Stephen's African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.4 mi away
- Orems Church — 1.7 mi away in Middle River, MD
- Chesaco Avenue United Methodist Church — 1.8 mi away in Rosedale, MD
- Back River United Methodist Church — 2.4 mi away