Second United Methodist Church
Second United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 1524 Western Avenue in Knoxville, TN 37921. It is one of 684 churches in Knoxville, and one of 57 Methodist congregations in the city.
Serving since 1868 · Wheelchair accessible
1524 Western Avenue, Knoxville, TN, 37921Service times
- Wednesday 11:30am · August 26th
Phone: (865) 524-1689 · Website: http://www.secondumc.org/
Second United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,068 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Tennessee — 25,370 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 Second United Methodist Church
- Children's Ministry
- JustLead
- Music Ministry
- Fellowship Meal
- Small Groups
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The community around Second 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 about 2 in 3 the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,300 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: 100.0%
- Poverty Rate: 69.6%
- Depression: 40.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.5% (13.0–24.3%)
- Obesity: 37.8%
- Unemployment: 6.8% (0.8–12.9%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 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 Second United Methodist Church
- Rogers Memorial Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Deaderick Avenue Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Children of God Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Clinton Chapel AME Zion Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bethel Apostolic Temple — 0.3 mi away
- Redeemer City at Oakwood — 0.3 mi away
- Eternal Life Harvest Center — 0.3 mi away
- Midtown Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- Praise Temple Holiness Church — 0.3 mi away
- Knox CHOP — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Church Street United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- All Souls Church — 0.9 mi away
- Central United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Virginia Avenue United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Emerald Avenue United Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away
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