Central United Methodist Church
Central United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 65 Academy Street in Wilkes-Barre, PA 18702. It is one of 82 churches in Wilkes-Barre, and one of 4 United Methodist congregations in the city.
65 Academy Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA, 18702Service times
- Sunday 11:30am
Phone: (570) 614-6717 · Website: http://www.centralumcwb.org/
Central United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,293 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Pennsylvania — 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 Central United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,300 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 40.7%
- Depression: 23.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.1%
- Poverty Rate: 20.4% (12.6–28.2%)
- Unemployment: 7.2% (2.3–12.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Wilkes-Barre city is served by 54 churches — about one congregation for every 820 residents.
Churches near Central United Methodist Church
- St. John's Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Messiah Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia de Dios de la Profecia — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia Nueva Jerusalem — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Bible Church — 0.3 mi away
- Good Shepherd Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Albright United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Iglesia Pentecostal Paso de Fe — 0.4 mi away
- St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Albright United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Bennett-Derr United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Centenary United Methodist Church — 1.8 mi away in Ashley, PA
- Dorranceton United Methodist Church — 2 mi away in Kingston, PA
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