St. Stephen United Methodist Church

St. Stephen United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Lexington, NC 27292. It is one of 188 churches in Lexington, and one of 4 Methodist congregations in the city.

Lexington, NC, 27292

St. Stephen United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,294 congregations of the Methodist family gather across North Carolina — 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 St. Stephen United Methodist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand 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: 56.9% (39.6–74.2%)
  • Poverty Rate: 34.2% (23.2–45.3%)
  • Food Insecurity: 29.5%
  • Unemployment: 12.4% (4.1–20.7%)
  • Obesity: 42.7%
  • Social Isolation: 34.5%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.5%
  • Housing Insecurity: 21.2%
  • Diabetes: 15.7%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.7%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.5%
  • Depression: 25.9%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.9%
  • Transportation Barriers: 15.2%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.5% (8.4–20.6%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Lexington city is served by 21 churches — about one congregation for every 781 residents.

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