Falconer First Wesleyan Church
Falconer First Wesleyan Church is a Wesleyan church at 126 W. James St. in Falconer, NY 14733. It is one of 9 churches in Falconer, and one of 2 Wesleyan congregations in the city.
Julia Hotchkiss is a recent graduate of Houghton College and Asbury Theological Seminary. She is a half-Canadian native of the Genesee Valley, so is grateful to be back in western New York after a few years in Kentucky. Julia is anxious to see what the Lord is up to in Falconer, NY and Chautauqua County as she takes on her first official ministry position at Peace Wesleyan.
126 W. James St., Falconer, NY, 14733Phone: (716) 665-4070 · Website: https://peacewesleyan.com/
Falconer First Wesleyan Church is part of the Wesleyan-Holiness family of churches in The American Church Story. 164 congregations of the Wesleyan-Holiness family gather across New York — 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 Falconer 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. Nearly half 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: 49.3% (35.8–62.8%)
- Poverty Rate: 33.9%
- Food Insecurity: 26.0%
- Social Isolation: 33.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.7%
- Diabetes: 15.1%
- Unemployment: 10.7% (3.7–17.7%)
- Obesity: 39.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.0%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Falconer First Wesleyan Church
- Bethlehem Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Falconer United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Our Lady of Loreto Roman Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Elmwood Avenue Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Grace First Fellowship — 1 mi away
- Buffalo Street United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away in Jamestown, NY
- Grace Chapel Church — 1.3 mi away in Jamestown, NY
- Saint Johns Roman Catholic Church — 1.3 mi away in Jamestown, NY
- First Church of God — 1.4 mi away in Jamestown, NY
More Wesleyan-Holiness churches nearby
- Levant Wesleyan Church — 2.1 mi away
- Church of the Nazarene — 3.7 mi away in Jamestown, NY
- Jamestown Church of the Nazarene — 4.2 mi away in Jamestown, NY
- Crossings at South Dayton — 18.6 mi away in South Dayton, NY
- Salvation Army — 19 mi away in Warren, PA