West End United Methodist Church
West End United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Roanoke, VA 24016. It is one of 351 churches in Roanoke, and one of 18 Methodist congregations in the city.
Roanoke, VA, 24016Website: http://www.weumcroanoke.org/
West End 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 West End 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. More than a third 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: 43.3%
- Social Isolation: 38.0%
- Food Insecurity: 23.5%
- Poverty Rate: 22.8% (14.2–31.3%)
- Depression: 25.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.2%
- Diabetes: 14.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.0% (6.5–19.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Roanoke city is served by 141 churches — about one congregation for every 703 residents.
Churches near West End United Methodist Church
- West End Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- The Way — 0.1 mi away
- Dwelling Place Roanoke — 0.2 mi away
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Life Ministeries — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Elias Roman Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Our Lady of Nazareth Roman Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Sinai True Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Price Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.8 mi away
- Melrose United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- First Wesleyan Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- St Paul United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Raleigh Court United Methodist Church — 1 mi away