Bethany United Methodist Church

Bethany United Methodist Church is a church in Parkersburg, WV 26101. It is one of 120 churches in Parkersburg.

Parkersburg, WV, 26101

Bethany United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 689 congregations of the Methodist family gather across West 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 Bethany United Methodist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,200 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: 56.7% (38.2–75.3%)
  • Obesity: 50.0%
  • Poverty Rate: 38.3% (27.8–48.8%)
  • Depression: 36.6%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.7%
  • Food Insecurity: 30.3%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.6%
  • Diabetes: 18.9%
  • Unemployment: 18.8% (11.4–26.3%)
  • Social Isolation: 36.6%
  • Housing Insecurity: 21.0%
  • Transportation Barriers: 15.8%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Parkersburg city is served by 62 churches — about one congregation for every 506 residents.

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