Wesley Union African Methodist Episcopal Church
Wesley Union African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Episcopal church at 708 Johnson Avenue in Norfolk, VA 23504. It is one of 339 churches in Norfolk, and one of 8 Episcopal congregations in the city.
708 Johnson Avenue, Norfolk, VA, 23504Website: https://giv.li/fh2r9j
Wesley Union African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Anglican and Episcopal family of churches in The American Church Story. 335 congregations of the Anglican and Episcopal family gather across Virginia — 6,341 across the United States on The Church Map.
Anglicans gave the English-speaking church the words it still prays in: the Book of Common Prayer, and a translation of Scripture that shaped four centuries of worship, writing, and speech. Holding evangelical, catholic, and liberal convictions inside one communion has made them a long school of patience for every tradition that came after.
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The community around Wesley Union African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,400 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.
- Child Poverty: 77.3%
- Obesity: 56.0%
- Food Insecurity: 48.4%
- Social Isolation: 42.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.9%
- Poverty Rate: 38.1% (21.5–54.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 35.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 30.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 26.0%
- Diabetes: 25.1%
- Unemployment: 16.5% (6.5–26.5%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.8%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Norfolk city is served by 176 churches — about one congregation for every 1,346 residents.
Churches near Wesley Union African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Mason Memorial Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- United House of Prayer — 0.2 mi away
- Way the Truth the Life Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Union United Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- First Church of Christ Holiness USA — 0.3 mi away
- Garden of Prayer Temple — 0.3 mi away
- First Calvary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Calvary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Paul CME — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Anglican churches nearby
- Grace Episcopal Church — 1 mi away
- Church of the Epiphany — 1.3 mi away
- Saint Andrew Protestant Episcopal Church — 1.5 mi away
- Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 2.2 mi away in Portsmouth, VA
- Saint John's Episcopal Church — 2.2 mi away in Portsmouth, VA