Metropolitan United Methodist
Metropolitan United Methodist is a United Methodist church at 657 Best St in Buffalo, NY 14211-3001. It is one of 379 churches in Buffalo, and one of 4 United Methodist congregations in the city.
Services in Spanish and Portuguese and Korean
657 Best St, Buffalo, NY, 14211-3001Phone: +17168915652 · Website: http://www.umc.org
Metropolitan United Methodist is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 943 congregations of the Methodist family gather across New York — 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 Metropolitan United Methodist
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 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,300 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.
- Child Poverty: 78.2%
- Obesity: 46.2%
- Food Insecurity: 44.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.0%
- Poverty Rate: 34.8% (20.3–49.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 33.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.2%
- Diabetes: 21.6%
- Social Isolation: 37.9%
- Unemployment: 9.9% (1.8–18.7%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Metropolitan United Methodist
- Young Tabernacle Holiness Church Assembly — 0.1 mi away
- Emmanuel Temple SDA Church — 0.2 mi away
- St Marys of Sorrow Roman Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Hananiah Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Seed of Promise Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- St Martin De Porres Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Beginnings COGIC — 0.3 mi away
- Genesis Community Church — 0.4 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Hopewell Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Lincoln Memorial United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Centennial A.M.E. Zion Church — 1.5 mi away
- Delaine Waring African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.9 mi away
- Seneca Street United Methodist Church — 2.4 mi away
- First United Methodist Church of Buffalo — 2.5 mi away