Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church
Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church at 2813 Chestnut Street in Portsmouth, VA 23704. It is one of 213 churches in Portsmouth, and one of 13 Methodist congregations in the city.
2813 Chestnut Street, Portsmouth, VA, 23704Shares a ministry location with New Restoration Kingdom Church.
Wesley Methodist Episcopal 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 Wesley Methodist Episcopal 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 half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Obesity: 46.6%
- Social Isolation: 42.0%
- Food Insecurity: 36.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.9%
- Diabetes: 20.6%
- Unemployment: 15.5% (3.6–27.4%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.0%
- Poverty Rate: 21.5% (10.1–32.9%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.3%
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 Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church
- New Restoration Kingdom Church — 0 mi away
- The Mount Portsmouth — 0.1 mi away
- The Village Church of Portsmouth — 0.1 mi away
- Church of God of Prophecy — 0.2 mi away
- New Hope Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Saint Thomas Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- TFOGM — 0.3 mi away
- Antioch Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Johns Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Brighton Rock African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.4 mi away
- Elm Avenue Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Central Methodist Episcopal Church (former) — 1.1 mi away
- Monumental United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away
- The Great Awakening United Church of Christ — 1.4 mi away
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