Washington Street United Methodist Church
Washington Street United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 1401 Washington Street in Columbia, SC 29201. It is one of 422 churches in Columbia, and one of 5 United Methodist congregations in the city.
With hearts full of love, the mission of Washington Street UMC is to make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world from the heart of the city throughout the world.
Washington Street United Methodist Church is a member of The Reconciling Ministries Network (RMN).
Part of Reconciling Ministries Network
1401 Washington Street, Columbia, SC, 29201Service times
- Sunday 11am · service is streamed live
Phone: (803) 256-2417 · Website: http://www.wsmethodist.org/
Washington Street United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 898 congregations of the Methodist family gather across South Carolina — 25,989 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.
Ministries at Washington Street United Methodist Church
- Soup Cellar
- Adult Sunday School
- Children’s Ministries
- Youth Ministries
- Small Groups
- Service Ministries
- Child Development Center
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Latest from Washington Street UMC's YouTube channel: November 1st 2026 - Their Witness, Our Calling (Rev. Becky Shirley) (all videos).
The community around Washington Street United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than half 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: 88.3%
- Poverty Rate: 55.7%
- Food Insecurity: 26.8% (20.5–34.1%)
- Social Isolation: 39.8%
- Depression: 30.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.2% (10.7–19.8%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.5%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Columbia city is served by 119 churches — about one congregation for every 960 residents.
Churches near Washington Street United Methodist Church
- First Young Professionals — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of the Apostles — 0.2 mi away
- Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention of South Carolina — 0.2 mi away
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of the Good Shepherd — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Episcopal Cathedral — 0.3 mi away
- St. Paul’s Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Dream Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Sidney Park CME Church — 0.4 mi away
- Wesley Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Main Street United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Taylor Evangelical Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
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