First Wesleyan Church
First Wesleyan Church is a church in Dayton, OH 45417. It is one of 562 churches in Dayton.
Dayton, OH, 45417First 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 First Wesleyan Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. That is 2,100 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: 53.7%
- Food Insecurity: 46.5%
- Child Poverty: 45.9% (26.5–65.3%)
- Social Isolation: 42.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 41.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 34.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 30.2%
- Diabetes: 29.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 23.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.6%
- Poverty Rate: 25.7% (11.0–40.4%)
- Depression: 23.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.0%
- Unemployment: 7.9% (0.8–16.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Dayton city is served by 260 churches — about one congregation for every 588 residents.
Churches near First Wesleyan Church
- Mount Hermon Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Jude Holy Church — 0.1 mi away
- True Holy Church of God and Christ — 0.1 mi away
- The Gathering — 0.1 mi away
- Upshaw African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Holy Cross Spiritual Church — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Love Christian Church Westwood — 0.2 mi away
- Harris Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Solid Rock Primitive Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Gethsemane Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
More Wesleyan-Holiness churches nearby
- Apostolic Faith Church — 1.2 mi away
- Dayton View Church of the Nazarene — 1.3 mi away
- Drexel Church of the Nazarene — 2.6 mi away in Trotwood, OH
- Riverdale Wesleyan Church — 2.7 mi away
- Central Church of the Nazarene — 2.9 mi away