Jackson Street United Methodist Church
Jackson Street United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 901 Jackson Street in Lynchburg, VA 24504. It is one of 247 churches in Lynchburg, and one of 2 United Methodist congregations in the city.
901 Jackson Street, Lynchburg, VA, 24504Jackson Street 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 Jackson Street United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than 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: 47.3%
- Social Isolation: 40.4%
- Poverty Rate: 31.6% (19.1–44.0%)
- Food Insecurity: 30.6%
- Diabetes: 18.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.4%
- Depression: 23.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Lynchburg city is served by 135 churches — about one congregation for every 586 residents.
Churches near Jackson Street United Methodist Church
- Eighth Street Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Smyrna Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Living Word Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Paul's Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Westminster Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Crosspoint Downtown — 0.3 mi away
- Holy Cross Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Fifth Street Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Jericho Baptist Missionary Chapel — 0.3 mi away
- Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Lynchburg — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Court Street United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Marshall Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.8 mi away
- Christ's Community Fellowship United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Southview United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
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