Blandford United Methodist Church
Blandford United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Petersburg, VA 23803. It is one of 145 churches in Petersburg, and one of 8 Methodist congregations in the city.
Petersburg, VA, 23803Blandford 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 Blandford United Methodist Church
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. About 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 76.1%
- Obesity: 49.4%
- Social Isolation: 40.1%
- Food Insecurity: 37.6%
- Poverty Rate: 35.1% (23.5–46.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 28.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.4%
- Diabetes: 20.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.9%
- Unemployment: 11.2% (4.8–17.7%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.6%
- Depression: 23.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Petersburg city is served by 51 churches — about one congregation for every 652 residents.
Churches near Blandford United Methodist Church
- Bethany Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Crater View Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Jesus Way Fellowship Center — 0.5 mi away
- Resurrection Life Christian Center Church — 0.7 mi away
- Agape Christian Center Church — 0.7 mi away
- New Beginning Holiness Cooljc — 0.7 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.7 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Flamingsword Church Of Deliverance — 0.8 mi away
- Washington Street United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Agape Christian Center Church — 0.7 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Washington Street United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Oak Street African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.9 mi away
- Saint Marks United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
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