Appalachia United Methodist Church
Appalachia United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church in Appalachia, VA 24216. It is one of 6 churches in Appalachia.
Appalachia, VA, 24216Appalachia United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 956 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Virginia — 25,370 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 Appalachia United Methodist Church
It takes 2.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Child Poverty: 45.4% (27.1–63.7%)
- Obesity: 45.0%
- Social Isolation: 36.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.3%
- Food Insecurity: 20.1%
- Diabetes: 16.0%
- Unemployment: 8.6% (2.4–14.9%)
- Depression: 26.8%
- Poverty Rate: 21.9% (12.8–31.0%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.5%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Appalachia United Methodist Church
- Harvest of Praise Church — 0.2 mi away
- Thee Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Oak Grove Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away in Big Stone Gap, VA
- Heritage Church of God — 2.2 mi away in Big Stone Gap, VA
- New Hope Assembly of God — 2.2 mi away in Big Stone Gap, VA
- Bethesda Church of God — 2.2 mi away in Big Stone Gap, VA
- Sacred Heart Catholic Church — 2.4 mi away in Big Stone Gap, VA
More Methodist churches nearby
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 2.8 mi away in Big Stone Gap, VA
- East Stone Gap Methodist Church — 3.5 mi away in East Stone Gap, VA
- Seminary United Methodist Church — 6.9 mi away in Big Stone Gap, VA
- Norton United Methodist Church — 8.8 mi away in Norton, VA
- Benham United Methodist Church — 10 mi away in Benham, KY
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