Qualla Wesleyan Chapel
Qualla Wesleyan Chapel is a Wesleyan church in Whittier, NC 28789. It is one of 18 churches in Whittier.
Whittier, NC, 28789Qualla Wesleyan Chapel 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 Qualla Wesleyan Chapel
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 about a third 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): 32.4%
- Food Insecurity: 28.0%
- Obesity: 41.5%
- Social Isolation: 37.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.5%
- Depression: 27.4%
- Poverty Rate: 24.8% (16.5–33.1%)
- Diabetes: 16.8%
- Unemployment: 11.3% (4.6–17.9%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Qualla Wesleyan Chapel
- Olivet United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 1.1 mi away
- Saint Francis of Assisi Church — 1.2 mi away in Cherokee, NC
- Cherokee Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away in Cherokee, NC
- Cherokee Bible Church — 1.3 mi away
- Patterson Chapel Church — 1.5 mi away
- Rock Springs Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away in Cherokee, NC
- Shoal Creek Church — 1.8 mi away
- Yellow Hill Church — 1.8 mi away in Cherokee, NC
- Hyatt Chapel Church — 1.9 mi away
More Wesleyan-Holiness churches nearby
- Wesleyan Church — 4 mi away in Cherokee, NC
- Cherokee Church of the Nazarene — 5.1 mi away in Cherokee, NC
- Cornerstone Wesleyan Church — 8.1 mi away in Bryson City, NC
- Wesleyanna Church — 11.8 mi away in Sylva, NC
- Tuckasegee Wesleyan Church — 17.1 mi away
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