McDowell United Methodist Church
McDowell United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 8995 Highland Turnpike in McDowell, VA 24458. It is one of 5 churches in McDowell.
8995 Highland Turnpike, McDowell, VA, 24458McDowell United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 970 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Virginia — 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 McDowell United Methodist Church
It takes 9.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes, and about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, 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: 15.0%
- Unemployment: 11.8% (5.5–18.1%)
- Obesity: 38.1%
- Social Isolation: 32.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near McDowell United Methodist Church
- McDowell Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- McDowell Mennonite Church — 0.5 mi away
- Hiner Church of the Brethren — 2.1 mi away
- Highland Seventh Day Adventist Church — 4.1 mi away
- Headwaters Presbyterian Chapel — 4.1 mi away in Head Waters, VA
- Highland Baptist Church — 7.2 mi away in Monterey, VA
- Monterey United Methodist Episcopal Church — 7.3 mi away in Monterey, VA
- Word of Faith Outreach Ministry — 7.4 mi away in Monterey, VA
- Beulah and Monterey Presbyterian Churches — 7.5 mi away in Monterey, VA
- Hamilton Chapel Advent Christian Church — 7.5 mi away in Monterey, VA
More Methodist churches nearby
- Monterey United Methodist Episcopal Church — 7.3 mi away in Monterey, VA
- Asbury United Methodist Church — 7.9 mi away in Monterey, VA
- Blue Grass United Methodist Church — 12 mi away
- Burnsville United Methodist Church — 13.8 mi away
- Starr Bolar Chapel United Methodist Church — 17.6 mi away