Virginia Avenue United Methodist Church
Virginia Avenue United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Knoxville, TN 37921. It is one of 684 churches in Knoxville, and one of 57 Methodist congregations in the city.
Knoxville, TN, 37921Virginia Avenue 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.
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The community around Virginia Avenue United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of adults here carry depression. That is two thousand 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: 46.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.6%
- Depression: 34.7%
- Poverty Rate: 30.2% (18.3–42.0%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 24.5%
- Diabetes: 19.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.1% (11.3–24.9%)
- Unemployment: 8.2% (2.8–13.9%)
- Child Poverty: 26.0% (7.0–44.9%)
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 Virginia Avenue United Methodist Church
- Keith Avenue Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Belmont Heights Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- West Side Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Beaumont Avenue Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Tennessee Avenue Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Faith Independent Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- College Hill Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Western Heights Baptist Center — 0.7 mi away
- Hearts Way — 0.7 mi away
- Heartsway Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Martin Chapel United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Redemption Church — 0.9 mi away
- Lonsdale United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- West View United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Second United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
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