Grace United Methodist Church
Grace United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Roanoke, VA 24012. It is one of 351 churches in Roanoke, and one of 18 Methodist congregations in the city.
Roanoke, VA, 24012Grace 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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The community around Grace 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. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 54.3% (37.9–70.7%)
- Obesity: 42.2%
- Social Isolation: 36.3%
- Poverty Rate: 28.4% (20.0–36.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.1%
- Food Insecurity: 22.0%
- Diabetes: 16.3%
- Depression: 23.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.2%
- Unemployment: 7.7% (3.1–12.4%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Roanoke city is served by 141 churches — about one congregation for every 703 residents.
Churches near Grace United Methodist Church
- Saint James Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Life Pointe Church — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia Adventista de Roanoke — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Crossroads Church — 0.3 mi away
- Airlee Court Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bethany Christian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Thomas of Canterbury Anglican Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Roanoke First Church of God — 0.6 mi away
- Abundant Grace Assembly — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Huntington Court United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Valley View Wesleyan Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Villa Heights Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Northview Church — 2 mi away
- Melrose United Methodist Church — 2 mi away