Broad Street United Methodist Church

Broad Street United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 300 Broad Street in Portsmouth, VA 23707. It is one of 213 churches in Portsmouth, and one of 12 Methodist congregations in the city.

300 Broad Street, Portsmouth, VA, 23707

Shares a ministry location with Zion Community Church.

Broad 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 Broad Street United Methodist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third 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: 40.4%
  • Social Isolation: 37.2%
  • Food Insecurity: 23.0%
  • Diabetes: 15.3%
  • Depression: 24.7%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.1%
  • Poverty Rate: 19.8% (9.8–29.7%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 18.0%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.5%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Portsmouth city is served by 119 churches — about one congregation for every 818 residents.

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