Emma United Methodist Church
Emma United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church in Asheville, NC 28806. It is one of 225 churches in Asheville, and one of 11 United Methodist congregations in the city.
Asheville, NC, 28806Emma United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,294 congregations of the Methodist family gather across North Carolina — 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 Emma United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of 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 the people here live without health insurance, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 32.2% (22.2–42.2%)
- Social Isolation: 34.4%
- Food Insecurity: 23.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.1%
- Obesity: 36.8%
- Depression: 26.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.8%
- Poverty Rate: 18.4% (7.5–29.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 17.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.9%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Asheville city is served by 77 churches — about one congregation for every 902 residents.
Churches near Emma United Methodist Church
- Emanuel Moldavian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Gospel Tabernacle Church — 0.6 mi away
- Christian Church of Hope — 0.9 mi away
- Riverview Church — 1 mi away in Woodfin, NC
- Asheville First Church of the Nazarene — 1 mi away
- Iglesia Bautista de la Fe — 1 mi away
- Harmony Hill Church — 1.1 mi away
- Aaron Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Riverside Church — 1.2 mi away in Woodfin, NC
- Episcopal Church of the Redeemer — 1.2 mi away in Woodfin, NC
More Methodist churches nearby
- Providence Global Methodist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Abernethy United Methodist Church — 2 mi away
- St. Paul's United Methodist Church — 2.1 mi away
- Central United Methodist Church of Asheville — 2.3 mi away
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