El Buen Pastor United Methodist Church

El Buen Pastor United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church in Detroit, MI 48209. It is one of 1,584 churches in Detroit, and one of 2 United Methodist congregations in the city.

Detroit, MI, 48209

El Buen Pastor United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 846 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Michigan — 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 El Buen Pastor United Methodist Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of adults are worried about keeping the housing they have. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.

  • Food Insecurity: 36.2%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.6%
  • Housing Insecurity: 28.2%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 24.1%
  • Social Isolation: 37.0%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.6%
  • Poverty Rate: 23.6% (14.2–33.0%)
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.7%
  • Unemployment: 11.7% (4.8–18.7%)
  • Obesity: 37.9%
  • Child Poverty: 27.8% (13.1–42.5%)
  • Depression: 23.6%
  • Transportation Barriers: 16.9%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.8% (8.2–21.4%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Detroit city is served by 1,247 churches — about one congregation for every 510 residents.

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