War United Methodist Church
War United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church in War, WV 24892. It is one of 3 churches in War.
War, WV, 24892War United 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.
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The community around War United Methodist Church
It takes 5.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and more than a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of adults here carry depression. 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.
- Obesity: 45.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.8%
- Depression: 32.4%
- Poverty Rate: 31.4% (17.2–45.6%)
- Food Insecurity: 26.9%
- Diabetes: 21.6%
- Unemployment: 17.2% (5.9–28.6%)
- Social Isolation: 36.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near War United Methodist Church
- Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Union Church — 2.9 mi away
- Bartley Fellowship Church of God — 3.8 mi away in Bartley, WV
- New Beginnings Christian Church — 3.9 mi away in Bartley, WV
- Jesus Church of Bartley — 4.4 mi away
- Mount Airy Church — 5 mi away in Welch, WV
- Coalwood Community Church — 6.3 mi away in Welch, WV
- Mount Carmel Church — 6.6 mi away
- Short Ridge Church — 7.1 mi away
- Oak Grove Church — 7.2 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First Presbyterian Church — 10.6 mi away in Welch, WV
- Court Street Methodist Church — 11 mi away in Welch, WV
- Houston Methodist Church — 13.1 mi away in Kimball, WV
- Keystone Methodist Episcopal Church — 15 mi away in Keystone, WV
- Cedar Bluff United Methodist Church — 15.3 mi away in Cedar Bluff, VA