Peace Temple United Methodist Church
Peace Temple United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Benton Harbor, MI 49022. It is one of 72 churches in Benton Harbor, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
Benton Harbor, MI, 49022Peace Temple United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 819 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Michigan — 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 Peace Temple United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,200 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.
- Obesity: 55.5%
- Food Insecurity: 53.3%
- Poverty Rate: 42.2% (28.1–56.4%)
- Social Isolation: 41.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 38.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 34.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 27.4%
- Diabetes: 22.8%
- Unemployment: 15.3% (4.2–26.5%)
- Depression: 26.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Benton Harbor city is served by 29 churches — about one congregation for every 371 residents.
Churches near Peace Temple United Methodist Church
- Progressive Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bethel Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church in Benton Harbor — 0.1 mi away
- First Congregational Church — 0.1 mi away
- Pentecostal Power Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Peters Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Reed Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Ebeneezer Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint John Church — 0.5 mi away
- Watts Memorial Church of God — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint Paul Colored Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Pathway Methodist — 3 mi away in St Joseph, MI
- First United Methodist Church — 3 mi away in Saint Joseph, MI
- Scottdale United Methodist Church — 5.1 mi away in Saint Joseph, MI
- Riverside United Methodist Church — 6.4 mi away in Coloma, MI
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