Park Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church
Park Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in East Orange, NJ 07017. It is one of 78 churches in East Orange, and one of 4 Methodist congregations in the city.
East Orange, NJ, 07017Park Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 515 congregations of the Methodist family gather across New Jersey — 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 Park Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. Nearly a quarter of adults are worried about keeping the housing they have, and about 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is 2,300 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: 31.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.4%
- Unemployment: 14.3% (2.0–26.6%)
- Social Isolation: 39.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.7%
- Obesity: 36.2%
- Child Poverty: 29.8% (12.5–47.0%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.8%
- Poverty Rate: 17.7% (10.5–24.8%)
- Transportation Barriers: 15.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.3%
- Diabetes: 14.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.1% (3.4–18.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
East Orange city is served by 34 churches — about one congregation for every 2,025 residents.
Churches near Park Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church
- East Orange Church of God of Prophecy — 0 mi away
- First United Tabernacle International Ministries — 0 mi away
- New Vision Full Gospel Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Reid Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Shine For Jesus Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Church of Jesus Christ Apostolic — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Cornerstone Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bethel Haitian Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Arlington Avenue Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Grace Union African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- R.I.S.E Church — 0.6 mi away
- Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Marks African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.9 mi away
- Grace Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.4 mi away
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