The Great Awakening United Church of Christ
The Great Awakening United Church of Christ is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 1520 High St in Portsmouth, VA 23704-3210. It is one of 213 churches in Portsmouth.
Our mission is about serving others.
We are a community of believers who love, live, and look like you. We are committed to growing and serving God together in love.
Serving since 2001 · Wheelchair accessible
1520 High St, Portsmouth, VA, 23704-3210Service times
- Tuesday 6:30pm
Phone: (757) 773-1301 · Website: https://www.thegreatawakeningucc.com/
The Great Awakening United Church of Christ 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.
Ministries at The Great Awakening United Church of Christ
- Food Pantry
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The community around The Great Awakening United Church of Christ
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. About a third 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: 30.8%
- Diabetes: 19.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.3%
- Obesity: 44.5%
- Social Isolation: 39.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.0%
- Poverty Rate: 27.0% (15.4–38.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 23.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.2%
- Unemployment: 7.8% (1.9–13.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
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- Third Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Judah Sanctuary — 0.1 mi away
- Twine Memorial Holy Temple — 0.2 mi away
- Union Pentecostal Church Number 2 — 0.2 mi away
- Cottage Place Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Mount Olivet Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Kingdom Bound Worship Center — 0.5 mi away
- Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Bethel Temple Church — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Cottage Place Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Park View Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Elm Avenue Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Central Methodist Episcopal Church (former) — 0.8 mi away
- Monumental United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
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