Cottage Place Methodist Church
Cottage Place Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 442 Jamestown Avenue in Portsmouth, VA 23704. It is one of 213 churches in Portsmouth, and one of 12 Methodist congregations in the city.
442 Jamestown Avenue, Portsmouth, VA, 23704Cottage Place 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 Cottage Place Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 27.3%
- Diabetes: 18.0%
- Obesity: 43.2%
- Social Isolation: 38.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.6%
- Poverty Rate: 22.3% (12.3–32.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 21.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.4%
- Unemployment: 6.2% (1.3–11.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Portsmouth city is served by 119 churches — about one congregation for every 818 residents.
Churches near Cottage Place Methodist Church
- Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bethel Temple Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Olive Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- The Great Awakening United Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Nebo Church — 0.4 mi away
- Judah Sanctuary — 0.5 mi away
- Twine Memorial Holy Temple — 0.5 mi away
- Third Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Union Pentecostal Church Number 2 — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Providence African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.6 mi away
- Park View Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.8 mi away
- Elm Avenue Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Central Methodist Episcopal Church (former) — 1.2 mi away
- Broad Street United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
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