Kern Memorial United Methodist Church
Kern Memorial United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 451 East Tennessee Avenue in Oak Ridge, TN 37830. It is one of 65 churches in Oak Ridge, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
Our mission is simple: To help people belong, grow in faith, and make a difference.
At Kern Church, we believe that faith isn't just about Sunday—it’s about finding hope, experiencing community, discovering how much God loves you, and making a real difference in the world.
451 East Tennessee Avenue, Oak Ridge, TN, 37830Service times
- Sunday 10am · School for youth middle high school kids
Phone: (865) 483-5273 · Website: https://www.kernchurch.org/
Kern Memorial 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 Kern Memorial United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 adults here carry depression. More than a third of adults live with obesity, 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 lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Depression: 29.3%
- Obesity: 39.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.4%
- Unemployment: 6.5% (2.4–10.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Oak Ridge city is served by 46 churches — about one congregation for every 679 residents.
Churches near Kern Memorial United Methodist Church
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses — 0.1 mi away
- LifeHouse Church — 0.3 mi away
- St. Anne Orthodox Church — 0.3 mi away
- Glenwood Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Calvary Lighthouse Church — 0.7 mi away
- Christ Community Church — 0.7 mi away
- Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Freedom Hope Church — 1 mi away
- Chapel on the Hill — 1.1 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church — 2.3 mi away
- Valley View United Methodist Church — 4.8 mi away in Clinton, TN
- Dutch Valley United Methodist Church — 5.2 mi away in Clinton, TN
- Solway United Methodist Church — 5.3 mi away in Knoxville, TN
- Oliver Springs United Methodist — 5.9 mi away in Oliver Springs, TN
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