Rural Retreat United Methodist Church
Rural Retreat United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 503 Church St in Rural Retreat, VA 24368. It is one of 20 churches in Rural Retreat.
At Rural Retreat United Methodist Church, we feel that one of the most significant investments we can make is in our Children and Youth.
Serving since 1988
503 Church St, Rural Retreat, VA, 24368Service times
- Sunday 10am · School is available for children youth of all ages morning
Phone: +12766866429 · Website: https://www.ruralretreatumc.net/
Rural Retreat United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 956 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Virginia — 25,370 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 Rural Retreat United Methodist Church
- Children's and Youth Ministry
- Sunday School
- Vacation Bible School
- Community Service & Missions
- Adult Discipleship
- Music Ministries
- Quilting Ministry
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Latest from Rural Retreat UMC's YouTube channel: Sunday Worship 08/02/2026 (all videos).
The community around Rural Retreat United Methodist Church
It takes 2.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Social Isolation: 32.7%
- Obesity: 37.9%
- Child Poverty: 29.6% (14.6–44.8%)
- Depression: 24.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.3%
- Diabetes: 13.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Rural Retreat United Methodist Church
- Rural Retreat Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Cross Pointe Community Church — 0.4 mi away
- Ignite Church — 0.4 mi away
- Grace Church — 0.5 mi away
- High Point Church — 0.9 mi away
- Mount Olive United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Kimberlin Church — 2.1 mi away
- Union Church — 2.5 mi away
- Saint Paul Lutheran Church — 2.5 mi away
- Open Door Church — 2.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Mount Olive United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- New Bethel Methodist Church — 4.6 mi away in Wytheville, VA
- Speedwell Methodist Church — 7.4 mi away
- Evergreen United Methodist Church — 9 mi away in Wytheville, VA
- Fairview United Methodist Church — 10.2 mi away in Wytheville, VA
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