First Church of the Nazarene

First Church of the Nazarene is a church in Covington, VA 24426. It is one of 62 churches in Covington.

Covington, VA, 24426

Shares a ministry location with First Church of Nazerene.

First Church of the Nazarene 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 First Church of the Nazarene

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. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.

  • Obesity: 42.7%
  • Social Isolation: 35.9%
  • Child Poverty: 35.7% (18.6–52.9%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.7%
  • Poverty Rate: 26.5% (17.2–35.8%)
  • Food Insecurity: 22.7%
  • Diabetes: 18.0%
  • Depression: 25.9%
  • Housing Insecurity: 16.1%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.7%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Covington city is served by 20 churches — about one congregation for every 286 residents.

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