Short Creek United Methodist Church
Short Creek United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Wheeling, WV 26003. It is one of 107 churches in Wheeling, and one of 15 Methodist congregations in the city.
Wheeling, WV, 26003Short Creek 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 Short Creek United Methodist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is two thousand 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.
- Social Isolation: 32.6%
- Depression: 29.2%
- Obesity: 38.0%
- Child Poverty: 23.7% (5.9–41.7%)
- Diabetes: 13.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Short Creek United Methodist Church
- Lawrencefield Chapel — 2.3 mi away
- West Liberty Christian Church — 2.3 mi away in West Liberty, WV
- Clinton Church — 2.4 mi away in Triadelphia, WV
- Windsor Heights Church of God — 2.7 mi away in Windsor Heights, WV
- Mount Saint Joseph Convent — 3.1 mi away
- Tiltonsville United Methodist Church — 3.2 mi away in Tiltonsville, OH
- St. Joseph Church — 3.3 mi away in Tiltonsville, OH
- Rayland United Methodist Church — 3.3 mi away in Rayland, OH
- Kadesh Chapel — 3.4 mi away in Wellsburg, WV
- St Lucy's Church — 3.5 mi away in Yorkville, OH
More Methodist churches nearby
- Warwood United Methodist Church — 4.2 mi away
- Greggsville United Methodist Church — 5.2 mi away
- Messiah Evangelical Methodist Church — 5.8 mi away
- Hopewell Methodist Church — 6 mi away
- Christ United Methodist Church — 6.3 mi away
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