Philadelphia United Methodist Church
Philadelphia United Methodist Church is a church at 85 NC 32 in Sunbury, NC 27979. It is one of 8 churches in Sunbury.
85 NC 32, Sunbury, NC, 27979Philadelphia United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,375 congregations of the Methodist family gather across North Carolina — 25,985 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 Philadelphia United Methodist Church
It takes 4.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes. 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.
- Obesity: 40.2%
- Social Isolation: 33.2%
- Diabetes: 16.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.8%
- Depression: 24.7%
- Food Insecurity: 19.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.7%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Philadelphia United Methodist Church
- Damascus Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- St. Peters Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Paul Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint John A. M. E. Zion Church — 0.4 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Beulah Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Oak Grove Church — 3.1 mi away
- Middle Swamp Church — 4.1 mi away in Gates, NC
- New Middle Swamp Church — 4.4 mi away
- Zion Church — 5.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint John A. M. E. Zion Church — 0.4 mi away
- Parkers United Methodist Church — 5.3 mi away in Corapeake, NC
- Gatesville United Methodist Church — 8.7 mi away in Gatesville, NC
- Whaleyville United Methodist — 10.9 mi away in Suffolk, VA
- Cypress Chapel Christian Church — 11.9 mi away in Suffolk, VA
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