Wesley Grove United Church of Christ
Wesley Grove United Church of Christ is a church at 2308 Roanoke Avenue in Newport News, VA 23607. It is one of 233 churches in Newport News.
2308 Roanoke Avenue, Newport News, VA, 23607Wesley Grove United Church of Christ is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 51 congregations of the Congregational family gather across Virginia — 2,948 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Congregational churches planted the first colleges in America — Harvard and Yale began as their ministers' training grounds — and launched the modern foreign-mission movement from a New England haystack. Their conviction that a gathered congregation can govern itself under Christ is now shared by most churches in the country.
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The community around Wesley Grove United Church of Christ
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 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 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. That is 2,200 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: 52.6%
- Child Poverty: 41.6% (23.4–59.7%)
- Social Isolation: 40.4%
- Food Insecurity: 38.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.4%
- Poverty Rate: 30.9% (19.7–42.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 29.0%
- Diabetes: 22.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.7%
- Unemployment: 13.3% (6.6–20.0%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Newport News city is served by 83 churches — about one congregation for every 2,230 residents.
Churches near Wesley Grove United Church of Christ
- Shalom Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Vision Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Messiah Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Rising Star Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint John Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Church of the Lord Jesus — 0.2 mi away
- First Church of Newport News Baptist — 0.3 mi away
- Antioch Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Congregational churches nearby
- First United Church of Christ — 4.3 mi away in Hampton, VA
- Bethel United Church Of Christ — 4.9 mi away in Hampton, VA
- Warwick United Church of Christ — 7.2 mi away
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