Friend United Methodist Church
Friend United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Penn Yan, NY 14527. It is one of 25 churches in Penn Yan, and one of 6 Methodist congregations in the city.
Penn Yan, NY, 14527Friend United 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 Friend United Methodist Church
It takes 3.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance. 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.
- Social Isolation: 32.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.2% (11.9–22.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Friend United Methodist Church
- Yatesville Church — 2.4 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away in Jerusalem, NY
- Branchport United Methodist Church — 4.5 mi away in Branchport, NY
- St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Branchport NY — 4.9 mi away in Branchport, NY
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints — 5.1 mi away in Keuka Park, NY
- Bluff Point United Methodist Church — 5.1 mi away in Jerusalem, NY
- St John's Lutheran Church — 5.6 mi away
- Middlesex Baptist Church — 5.7 mi away in Middlesex, NY
- WellSpring Fellowship — 6.3 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 6.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Branchport United Methodist Church — 4.5 mi away in Branchport, NY
- Bluff Point United Methodist Church — 5.1 mi away in Jerusalem, NY
- Free Methodist Church — 6.4 mi away
- Penn Yan United Methodist Church — 6.5 mi away
- Benton Methodist Church — 7 mi away