Wesleyan Church
Wesleyan Church is a church in Cherokee, NC 28719. It is one of 29 churches in Cherokee.
Cherokee, NC, 28719Wesleyan Church is part of the Wesleyan-Holiness family of churches in The American Church Story. 121 congregations of the Wesleyan-Holiness family gather across North Carolina — 4,365 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Wesleyan-Holiness churches have insisted that God does not merely forgive people, he changes them — and they took that straight to the poorest streets they could find. The Salvation Army's kettles and soup lines, a century of rescue missions, and an early and costly record of ordaining women all came out of this family.
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The community around Wesleyan Church
It takes 2.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of the people here live without health insurance, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Child Poverty: 41.9% (29.3–54.5%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 28.8%
- Food Insecurity: 26.4%
- Obesity: 40.4%
- Social Isolation: 36.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.8%
- Depression: 27.7%
- Poverty Rate: 25.6% (16.6–34.6%)
- Diabetes: 16.5%
- Unemployment: 11.3% (4.3–18.4%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.0%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Wesleyan Church
- Blue Wing Church — 0.3 mi away
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Water Falls Church — 1.3 mi away
- New Song Church Cherokee NC — 1.5 mi away
- The Old Antioch Missionary Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Cherokee United Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Cherokee Church of Christ — 1.7 mi away
- Wrights Creek Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Rock Springs Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
- Bigwitch Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
More Wesleyan-Holiness churches nearby
- Qualla Wesleyan Chapel — 4 mi away in Whittier, NC
- Cherokee Church of the Nazarene — 4.3 mi away
- Cornerstone Wesleyan Church — 12.1 mi away in Bryson City, NC
- Wesleyanna Church — 12.5 mi away in Sylva, NC
- Tuckasegee Wesleyan Church — 15.7 mi away
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