First Wesleyan Church

First Wesleyan Church is a church in Forest City, NC 28043. It is one of 42 churches in Forest City.

Forest City, NC, 28043

Website: http://firstwesleyan.org/

First Wesleyan Church is part of the Wesleyan-Holiness family of churches in The American Church Story. 127 congregations of the Wesleyan-Holiness family gather across North Carolina — 4,600 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 First Wesleyan Church

Within about a mile of this church, 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 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.

  • Child Poverty: 42.1% (27.6–56.6%)
  • Poverty Rate: 33.2% (23.9–42.4%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.5%
  • Food Insecurity: 30.1%
  • Obesity: 44.1%
  • Social Isolation: 34.4%
  • Depression: 28.6%
  • Housing Insecurity: 20.6%
  • Diabetes: 17.7%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.9% (10.7–23.0%)
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.0%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.0%
  • Transportation Barriers: 15.3%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Forest City town is served by 11 churches — about one congregation for every 424 residents.

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