First Wesleyan Methodist Church
First Wesleyan Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Mount Vernon, OH 43050. It is one of 17 churches in Mount Vernon, and one of 3 Methodist congregations in the city.
Mount Vernon, OH, 43050First Wesleyan Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,596 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Ohio — 25,985 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 First Wesleyan 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 people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Poverty Rate: 30.3% (18.3–42.2%)
- Obesity: 42.0%
- Social Isolation: 34.6%
- Depression: 27.6%
- Diabetes: 15.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.5%
- Food Insecurity: 19.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.7%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Mount Vernon city is served by 14 churches — about one congregation for every 614 residents.
Churches near First Wesleyan Methodist Church
- Foursquare Gospel Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mulberry Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Apostolic Faith Church — 0.6 mi away
- Apostolic Christian Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Congregational Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.7 mi away in Mt Vernon, OH
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Faith Lutheran Church — 0.7 mi away in Mt Vernon, OH
- Gay Street Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Saint Pauls Episcopal Church — 0.8 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Mulberry Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Gay Street Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- South Vernon Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away in Mt Vernon, OH
- Epworth Methodist Church — 5.5 mi away in Gambier, OH
- Fredericktown United Methodist Church — 5.8 mi away in Fredericktown, OH