John Wesley Church

The community around John Wesley Church

It takes 2.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. A scattered parish is still a parish.

Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.

• Obesity: 44.1%
• Child Poverty: 37.2% (21.7–53.8%)
• Social Isolation: 35.4%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.5%
• Food Insecurity: 24.3%
• Poverty Rate: 22.1% (15.2–28.9%)
• Diabetes: 16.1%
• Depression: 24.6%
• Housing Insecurity: 18.4%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.2%
• Unemployment: 6.7% (2.3–11.0%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near John Wesley Church

• Chestnut Grove Methodist Church — 1.7 mi away
• Bloomery Church — 1.8 mi away
• Alpha and Omega Church — 2.7 mi away
• Word of Life Family Ministries — 3 mi away
• Concord United Methodist — 3.6 mi away in Denton, MD
• Concord Methodist Episcopal Church — 3.7 mi away in Denton, MD
• International House Of Worship — 3.7 mi away
• Church of Nazarene — 3.7 mi away
• House of Prayer Christian Church — 3.9 mi away
• First Church of God — 3.9 mi away