Free Methodist Church
Free Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Corning, NY 14830. It is one of 36 churches in Corning, and one of 4 Methodist congregations in the city.
Corning, NY, 14830Free Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 943 congregations of the Methodist family gather across New York — 25,370 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 Free Methodist 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. About a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 31.7% (14.4–49.0%)
- Social Isolation: 30.5%
- Poverty Rate: 18.7% (13.2–24.3%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Corning city is served by 18 churches — about one congregation for every 593 residents.
Churches near Free Methodist Church
- Community Mennonite Fellowship — 0.1 mi away
- Hope Cemetery Chapel — 0.2 mi away in South Corning, NY
- Faith To Face Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 0.8 mi away
- South Corning United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- First Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Christ Episcopal Church — 0.9 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- South Corning United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- First Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Grace Methodist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Bethany Methodist Church — 2 mi away
- Victory Highway Wesleyan Church — 4.5 mi away in Painted Post, NY