Akron United Wesleyan Church
Akron United Wesleyan Church is a church in Akron, OH 44314. It is one of 431 churches in Akron.
Akron, OH, 44314Akron United Wesleyan Church is part of the Wesleyan-Holiness family of churches in The American Church Story. 383 congregations of the Wesleyan-Holiness family gather across Ohio — 4,599 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 Akron United Wesleyan Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 42.3%
- Social Isolation: 37.9%
- Depression: 28.9%
- Food Insecurity: 21.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.4%
- Poverty Rate: 16.2% (8.7–23.7%)
- Diabetes: 14.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Akron city is served by 251 churches — about one congregation for every 762 residents.
Churches near Akron United Wesleyan Church
- Goss Memorial Church — 0.1 mi away
- Chapel of Hope — 0.1 mi away
- Church On the Boulevard — 0.2 mi away
- Korean Presbyterian Church of Akron — 0.3 mi away
- The Redeemed Christian Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- RCCG Jesus House Akron — 0.3 mi away
- Kenmore United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Urban Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- House of Joy Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Kenmore Church of the Nazarene — 0.4 mi away
More Wesleyan-Holiness churches nearby
- Kenmore Church of the Nazarene — 0.4 mi away
- Arlington Church of the Nazarene — 3.4 mi away
- Salvation Army - Akron Temple Corps — 3.7 mi away
- Barberton First Church of the Nazarene — 4.3 mi away in Norton, OH