Bearden United Methodist Church
Bearden United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 4407 Sutherland Avenue in Knoxville, TN 37939. It is one of 684 churches in Knoxville, and one of 59 Methodist congregations in the city.
4407 Sutherland Avenue, Knoxville, TN, 37939Bearden United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,082 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Tennessee — 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 Bearden United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of adults here carry depression, and about 1 in 5 describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Depression: 31.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.1%
- Poverty Rate: 16.9% (10.7–23.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Knoxville city is served by 226 churches — about one congregation for every 868 residents.
Churches near Bearden United Methodist Church
- Fuse Church — 0.3 mi away
- Wallace Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.3 mi away
- Word of God Ministry — 0.6 mi away
- Mount Pleasant Church — 0.6 mi away
- City Hills Church — 0.7 mi away
- Central Church of God — 0.8 mi away
- Samaritan Ministry — 0.8 mi away
- Tennessee Cooperative Baptist Fellowship — 0.8 mi away
- Central Baptist Church of Bearden — 0.8 mi away
- Episcopal Church of the Ascension — 0.9 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Wallace Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Mark United Methodist Church — 2 mi away
- First Church Knox — 2.1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 2.1 mi away
- West View United Methodist Church — 2.2 mi away
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