Bray Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
Bray Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church at 2416 St. Louis Ave, East St. Louis, IL, 62205 in East Saint Louis, IL 62205. It is one of 65 churches in East Saint Louis, and one of 5 Methodist congregations in the city.
2416 St. Louis Ave, East St. Louis, IL, 62205, East Saint Louis, IL, 62205Phone: (618) 271-8236 · Website: http://netministries.org/see/churches.exe/ch15380
Bray Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,033 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Illinois — 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 Bray Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,100 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: 98.7%
- Obesity: 49.8%
- Food Insecurity: 37.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 29.0%
- Diabetes: 22.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.8%
- Social Isolation: 39.4%
- Poverty Rate: 27.1% (11.9–42.6%)
- Transportation Barriers: 18.4%
- Unemployment: 11.7% (3.4–20.9%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
East St. Louis city is served by 78 churches — about one congregation for every 249 residents.
Churches near Bray Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
- Christ United Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away in East St Louis, IL
- Greater New Hope Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away in East St Louis, IL
- Moores Temple Church of God — 0.2 mi away in East St Louis, IL
- Lilly Hill Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away in East St Louis, IL
- St. Matthew Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away in East St Louis, IL
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- West End Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away in East St Louis, IL
- Saint Elizabeth Church — 0.5 mi away
- LightHouse Apostolic Healing Mission — 0.5 mi away
- Faith Holiness Apostolic Church — 0.5 mi away in East St Louis, IL
More Methodist churches nearby
- State Street Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Bethel Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Pilgrim Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 1 mi away in East St. Louis, IL
- Shiloh AME Church — 1.1 mi away in East St. Louis, IL
- Saint Lukes African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.1 mi away
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