Benwood Methodist Church
Benwood Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Benwood, WV 26031. It is one of 2 churches in Benwood.
Benwood, WV, 26031Benwood Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 687 congregations of the Methodist family gather across West 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.
Find Benwood Methodist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Benwood Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 64.4%
- Obesity: 45.9%
- Poverty Rate: 33.3% (22.4–44.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.8%
- Food Insecurity: 25.9%
- Diabetes: 18.2%
- Social Isolation: 35.4%
- Depression: 31.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.8%
- Unemployment: 8.4% (1.1–16.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 18.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Benwood city is served by 2 churches — about one congregation for every 526 residents.
Churches near Benwood Methodist Church
- Saint John Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Reformed Church — 0.4 mi away in Bellaire, OH
- Bellaire Christian Church — 0.4 mi away in Bellaire, OH
- Saint Matthews Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away in Bellaire, OH
- Faith Fellowship Church — 0.4 mi away in Bellaire, OH
- Saint Josephs Roman Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away in Bellaire, OH
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away in Bellaire, OH
- Saint Johns Roman Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away in Bellaire, OH
- Bellaire Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away in Bellaire, OH
More Methodist churches nearby
- Bellaire Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away in Bellaire, OH
- Saint Pauls African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away in Bellaire, OH
- First Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away in Bellaire, OH
- South Bellaire Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away in Bellaire, OH
- Brooks Run Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.8 mi away in Bellaire, OH