Byers Avenue United Methodist Church
Byers Avenue United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 1730 Byers Avenue in Joplin, MO 64804. It is one of 124 churches in Joplin.
Byers is a unique church with roots extending back to 1899 and still bearing fruit today. A place where today's families find a connection with God and others. A place of belonging, sharing, and growing in faith.
1730 Byers Avenue, Joplin, MO, 64804Phone: (417) 624-3647 · Website: https://www.byersaveumc.org/
Byers Avenue United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 418 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Missouri — 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.
Ministries at Byers Avenue United Methodist Church
- Children's Church
- Lunch Bunch
- Faith and Fellowship
- Handbell Choir
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The community around Byers Avenue United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,100 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.
- Obesity: 44.2%
- Social Isolation: 34.4%
- Depression: 29.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.4%
- Food Insecurity: 24.0%
- Poverty Rate: 23.6% (16.6–30.6%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.1% (10.5–19.8%)
- Child Poverty: 22.7% (8.6–36.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 19.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.4%
- Diabetes: 13.8%
- Unemployment: 6.1% (1.0–11.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Joplin city is served by 20 churches — about one congregation for every 2,033 residents.
Churches near Byers Avenue United Methodist Church
- South Joplin Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Creation Church Joplin — 0.2 mi away
- The Sanctuary of Joplin — 0.2 mi away
- Bethany Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Blendville Christian Church — 0.6 mi away
- St Mary's Church — 0.6 mi away
- Impact Life Church — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Peter the Apostle Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
- Church of God Holiness — 0.7 mi away
- SolaceChurch — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Joplin First Church — 1.1 mi away
- Central United Methodist Church — 5.9 mi away in Webb City, MO
- Central Webb City — 6 mi away in Webb City, MO
- Carterville United Methodist Church — 6.7 mi away in Carterville, MO
- The Well United Methodist Church — 7.6 mi away in Carl Junction, MO