Central United Methodist Church
Central United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 1213 Porter Street in Richmond, VA 23224. It is one of 584 churches in Richmond, and one of 18 Methodist congregations in the city.
MAKING GOD'S LOVE REAL BY PLANTING SEEDS OF COMPASSION, CULTIVATING RELATIONSHIPS, AND TEACHING CHRIST-CENTERED DISCIPLESHIP.
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1213 Porter Street, Richmond, VA, 23224Service times
- Friday 6pm
Phone: (804) 232-0334 · Website: http://umcentral.org/
Central 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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Latest from Central UMC - Manchester RVA's YouTube channel: September 13th, 2026 - Sunday Morning Worship - Central UMC (all videos).
The community around Central United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About 1 in 7 the people here live below the poverty line, and about 1 in 7 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 40.7%
- Poverty Rate: 16.4% (9.8–23.0%)
- Food Insecurity: 16.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Richmond city is served by 181 churches — about one congregation for every 1,255 residents.
Churches near Central United Methodist Church
- Sacred Heart Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of God of Prophecy — 0.2 mi away
- Cathedral Outreach Mission — 0.2 mi away
- Tower of Deliverance Church — 0.3 mi away
- Richmond Christian Center — 0.3 mi away
- Bainbridge Street Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- United Nations Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church of South Richmond — 0.3 mi away
- Light of the World — 0.3 mi away
- Narroway True Holiness Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Broomfield Christian Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Koinonia Independent Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Common Table — 1.4 mi away
- Centenary United Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Pace Memorial United Methodist Church — 1.8 mi away