Westwood United Methodist Church
Westwood United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Palestine, TX 75801. It is one of 124 churches in Palestine, and one of 5 Methodist congregations in the city.
Palestine, TX, 75801Westwood 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 Westwood United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.8%
- Obesity: 43.4%
- Child Poverty: 35.6% (17.8–53.3%)
- Poverty Rate: 25.3% (15.9–34.7%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 21.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.9% (13.3–24.5%)
- Diabetes: 17.4%
- Depression: 24.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Palestine city is served by 35 churches — about one congregation for every 414 residents.
Churches near Westwood United Methodist Church
- Palestine Full Gospel Church — 0.3 mi away
- Westwood Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Grace Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Bassett Road Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Cornerstone Worship Center Church of God — 0.9 mi away
- Court Drive Church — 1 mi away
- Cornerstone Worship Center Outreach Center — 1.3 mi away
- Sheridan Terrace Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Pilgrim Hill Church — 1.4 mi away
- Salt Works Road Church of Christ — 1.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint Pauls Methodist Church — 2.2 mi away
- First Methodist Church of Palestine — 2.7 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 3 mi away
- Mount Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church — 3.5 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 4.8 mi away