Pleasant Valley United Methodist Church
Pleasant Valley United Methodist Church is a church at 316 Valley Avenue in Amarillo, TX 79108. It is one of 312 churches in Amarillo.
316 Valley Avenue, Amarillo, TX, 79108Pleasant Valley United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,579 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Texas — 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 Pleasant Valley United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,200 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: 42.2% (29.9–56.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.2%
- Obesity: 44.5%
- Poverty Rate: 25.1% (13.0–37.3%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.2% (8.0–30.4%)
- Diabetes: 17.5%
- Depression: 25.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Amarillo city is served by 178 churches — about one congregation for every 1,068 residents.
Churches near Pleasant Valley United Methodist Church
- Pleasant Valley Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Gateway Church — 0.2 mi away
- Pleasant Valley Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- United Pentecostal Church Camp Ground — 0.4 mi away
- Irwin Road Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Lighthouse Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Northside Assembly of God Church — 0.6 mi away
- Diversity Church — 0.6 mi away
- Pleasant Valley Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Fairlane Church of Christ — 0.8 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Buchanan Street United Methodist Church — 2.9 mi away
- Community of Grace United Methodist Church — 3 mi away
- Pleasant Valley United Methodist Church — 3.2 mi away
- Carter Chapel Church — 3.4 mi away
- Polk Street Methodist Church — 4.3 mi away