Wesleyan Church
Wesleyan Church is a church at 167 Dumbarton Drive in Amherst, VA 24521. It is one of 43 churches in Amherst.
167 Dumbarton Drive, Amherst, VA, 24521Wesleyan Church is part of the Wesleyan-Holiness family of churches in The American Church Story. 114 congregations of the Wesleyan-Holiness family gather across Virginia — 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 Wesleyan Church
It takes 4.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Diabetes: 15.4%
- Obesity: 38.9%
- Social Isolation: 32.0%
- Depression: 23.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.2%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Wesleyan Church
- Bethel Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
- Saint Stephens Church — 3 mi away
- Oak Grove Church — 3 mi away
- Clifford Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away
- Saint Peters Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away
- Poplar Church — 3.6 mi away
- Saint Marks Church — 3.6 mi away
- St. Mark's Episcopal Church — 3.6 mi away
- Emmanuel United Methodist Church — 3.8 mi away
- Blue Ridge Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away
More Wesleyan-Holiness churches nearby
- Church of the Nazarene — 17.2 mi away in Lynchburg, VA