First Wesleyan Church

First Wesleyan Church is a Wesleyan church at 208 S Church St in Gastonia, NC 28054-4233. It is one of 209 churches in Gastonia, and one of 2 Wesleyan congregations in the city.

208 S Church St, Gastonia, NC, 28054-4233

Phone: +17048677206 · Website: https://fwcgastonia.com/

First Wesleyan 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 First Wesleyan Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About 1 in 5 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.

  • Social Isolation: 34.6%
  • Food Insecurity: 21.5%
  • Unemployment: 8.7% (0.9–17.6%)
  • Obesity: 39.1%
  • Depression: 24.5%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.4%
  • Poverty Rate: 18.0% (10.2–25.8%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 17.2%
  • Diabetes: 14.2%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.0%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.8%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

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