Bay Lake United Methodist Church
Bay Lake United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 4300 Shore Drive in Virginia Beach, VA 23455. It is one of 374 churches in Virginia Beach, and one of 13 Methodist congregations in the city.
4300 Shore Drive, Virginia Beach, VA, 23455Bay Lake 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.
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The community around Bay Lake United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and about 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is 2,200 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: 32.5%
- Depression: 23.6%
- Unemployment: 7.1% (2.2–12.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Virginia Beach city is served by 119 churches — about one congregation for every 3,847 residents.
Churches near Bay Lake United Methodist Church
- Our Saviors Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Joan of Arc UAOCC — 0.4 mi away
- Bayside Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bayside Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Unity Fellowship Church — 1.5 mi away
- New Creation Assembly of God Church — 1.6 mi away
- Bayside Presbyterian Church — 1.7 mi away
- Iglesia de Cristo — 1.7 mi away
- The River Room Church of Hampton Roads — 2.2 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Haygood Church — 2.5 mi away
- Lynnhaven Church — 3 mi away
- Francis Asbury Church — 3.3 mi away
- New Saint John AME — 4 mi away
- Heritage United Methodist Church — 4.3 mi away
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