Central Park United Methodist Church
Central Park United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 216 Beard Avenue in Buffalo, NY 14214. It is one of 240 churches in Buffalo, and one of 2 United Methodist congregations in the city.
Rooted in the Wesleyan tradition, our faith is lived out loud, full of grace, open hearts, and the profound, simple truth: Christ loves us, and that's enough.
Central Park United Methodist Church is a Christ-centered community of faith and love, reaching out to all.
Part of Reconciling Ministries Network
216 Beard Avenue, Buffalo, NY, 14214Phone: (716) 833-3193 · Website: https://www.centralparkcomplex.com/
Central Park United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 979 congregations of the Methodist family gather across New York — 25,989 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.
Ministries at Central Park United Methodist Church
- Clara's Closet
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Latest from Central Park UMC's YouTube channel: Worship Service for October 11, 2026 (all videos).
The community around Central Park United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. 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.
- Social Isolation: 31.1%
- Unemployment: 6.2% (2.1–10.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Buffalo city is served by 65 churches — about one congregation for every 4,256 residents.
Churches near Central Park United Methodist Church
- Gospel Temple Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Elim Christian Fellowship — 0.4 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Parkside Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- North Park Lutheran — 0.5 mi away
- Anchor Church — 0.5 mi away
- St Mark's Church — 0.6 mi away
- St. Andrew's Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away
- St Rose Of Lima Roman Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
- The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Cornerstone Community Church — 1.3 mi away
- Lincoln Memorial United Methodist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Walls Memorial AME Zion Church — 2.2 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 2.2 mi away in Amherst, NY
- Kenmore United Methodist Church — 2.3 mi away