Saint Matthew's Methodist Church
Saint Matthew's Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Newark, NJ 07103. It is one of 434 churches in Newark, and one of 5 Methodist congregations in the city.
Newark, NJ, 07103Saint Matthew's Methodist 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 Saint Matthew's Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand 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.
- Food Insecurity: 43.7%
- Social Isolation: 41.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 35.1%
- Poverty Rate: 33.1% (20.3–45.9%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.1%
- Unemployment: 13.3% (4.6–22.1%)
- Diabetes: 16.7%
- Obesity: 38.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.9% (5.8–20.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Newark city is served by 139 churches — about one congregation for every 2,211 residents.
Churches near Saint Matthew's Methodist Church
- Vineyard Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- elestial Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Memorial West United Church — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Providence Missionary — 0.1 mi away
- Gates of Heaven Midday Prayer Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Humanity Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Genesis Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Antoninus Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Divine Adoration Prayer Group — 0.2 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Trinity Union African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away
- Israel Memorial AME church — 0.8 mi away
- St James A.M.E. Church — 0.9 mi away
- Allen AME Church — 1 mi away
- Saint Luke African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.2 mi away