Rainier Avenue Free Methodist Church
Rainier Avenue Free Methodist Church is a Free Methodist church at 5900 Rainier Avenue South in Seattle, WA 98118. It is one of 545 churches in Seattle, and one of 3 Free Methodist congregations in the city.
As Free Methodists, we pride ourselves in our Wesleyan spiritual heritage, which emphasizes serving the poor, ordaining women, and a longstanding commitment to justice and freedom.
We are part of the Rainier Valley, one of the most diverse zip codes of the United States. We celebrate the various ethnicities and groups that make up our neighborhood and church, and also pursue reconciliation and justice as biblical values.
Serving since 1904 · Fully accessible · Part of Pacific Northwest Conference
5900 Rainier Avenue South, Seattle, WA, 98118Service times
SUNDAYS | 10:00am; WEDNESDAYS | 7:00pm (as listed)
Phone: (206) 722-5616 · Website: https://www.rainieravenuechurch.org/
Rainier Avenue Free Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 234 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Washington — 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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Latest from Rainier Avenue Church Videos's YouTube channel: Sunday Worship Service (8/2/2026) (all videos).
The community around Rainier Avenue Free Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly a quarter of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about 1 in 5 the people here were born in another country. That is 2,300 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: 26.5% (14.7–38.9%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau (2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Seattle city is served by 331 churches — about one congregation for every 2,218 residents.
Churches near Rainier Avenue Free Methodist Church
- Star Bethel Missionary Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Church of Christ-Iglesia Ni Cristo — 0.1 mi away
- St. Edward Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Edwards Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Light Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- La Palabra Viva Church — 0.2 mi away
- Seattle Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity Life Center — 0.2 mi away
- Victorious Life Christian Center, Seattle — 0.2 mi away
- Primm Tabernacle African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Primm Tabernacle African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Valley and Mountain — 0.9 mi away
- Beacon United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Blaine Memorial United Methodist Church — 2.2 mi away
- Mercer Island United Methodist Church — 3.1 mi away in Mercer Island, WA
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