First Wesleyan Church

First Wesleyan Church is a church in Nashville-Davidson, TN 37206. It is one of 705 churches in Nashville-Davidson.

Nashville-Davidson, TN, 37206

First Wesleyan Church is part of the Wesleyan-Holiness family of churches in The American Church Story. 130 congregations of the Wesleyan-Holiness family gather across Tennessee — 4,599 across the United States on The Church Map.

The Wesleyan-Holiness churches have insisted that God does not merely forgive people, he changes them — and they took that straight to the poorest streets they could find. The Salvation Army's kettles and soup lines, a century of rescue missions, and an early and costly record of ordaining women all came out of this family.

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The community around First Wesleyan Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 the people here live below the poverty line. About a third of adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,300 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.

  • Poverty Rate: 34.5% (22.4–46.6%)
  • Depression: 31.6%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.1%
  • Unemployment: 8.6% (3.1–14.0%)
  • Obesity: 38.8%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.0%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government (balance) is served by 773 churches — about one congregation for every 875 residents.

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