The Old Rugged Cross Church
The Old Rugged Cross Church is a United Methodist church at 60041 Vermont Street in Dowagiac, MI 49047. It is one of 36 churches in Dowagiac.
The ORCF’s purpose is to maintain and preserve The Original Old Rugged Cross Church and Museum, and to offer a Christian ministry through programs of music and various opportunities for worshiping God.
Part of West Michigan Crime Prevention Association
60041 Vermont Street, Dowagiac, MI, 49047Phone: +12696834540 · Website: https://the-oldruggedcross.org/
The Old Rugged Cross Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 819 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Michigan — 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 The Old Rugged Cross Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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.
- Social Isolation: 32.0%
- Depression: 27.8%
- Obesity: 36.3%
- Child Poverty: 24.7% (9.7–39.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near The Old Rugged Cross Church
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- Community Church — 2.7 mi away in Edwardsburg, MI
- Calvin Community Chapel — 3.1 mi away in Cassopolis, MI
- Hope of Edwardsburg — 3.2 mi away in Edwardsburg, MI
- Ontwa Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away in Edwardsburg, MI
- Cass Evangelical Free Church — 3.4 mi away in Cassopolis, MI
- Presbyterian Church — 3.5 mi away in Edwardsburg, MI
- Kessington Community Church — 3.6 mi away in Edwardsburg, MI
- Hope United Methodist Church — 3.7 mi away in Edwardsburg, MI
- Mason Church — 3.9 mi away in Cassopolis, MI
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