Metropolitan Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
Metropolitan Christian Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in East Chicago, IN 46312. It is one of 89 churches in East Chicago, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
East Chicago, IN, 46312Metropolitan Christian Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 618 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Indiana — 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 Metropolitan Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,200 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: 49.0%
- Food Insecurity: 44.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.7%
- Poverty Rate: 31.2% (19.1–43.2%)
- Housing Insecurity: 30.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.3%
- Diabetes: 21.8%
- Unemployment: 12.6% (3.5–21.7%)
- Social Isolation: 37.5%
- Child Poverty: 36.0% (20.4–51.6%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
East Chicago city is served by 55 churches — about one congregation for every 479 residents.
Churches near Metropolitan Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
- First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- The Cross Church — 0.1 mi away
- Lighthouse Christian Fellowship Of East Chicago, Indiana — 0.1 mi away
- Marriage Matters — 0.1 mi away
- Saint George's Greek Orthodox Church — 0.1 mi away
- Ignite Church — 0.1 mi away
- Holy Trinity Slovak Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- First United Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Grace City Church — 0.2 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- St. Luke African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Mark's African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Mark African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.7 mi away
- Whiting United Methodist Church — 3.3 mi away in Whiting, IN
- Saint John African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 4 mi away in Hammond, IN
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