Saint Stephens English Methodist Church
Saint Stephens English Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 146 West 228th Street in New York, NY 10463. It is one of 3,431 churches in New York, and one of 72 Methodist congregations in the city.
146 West 228th Street, New York, NY, 10463Saint Stephens English 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 — 25,985 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 Stephens English 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 half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 6,600 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: 56.8% (38.0–75.7%)
- Social Isolation: 41.4%
- Food Insecurity: 40.5%
- Poverty Rate: 36.9% (24.2–49.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 31.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.7%
- Diabetes: 16.1%
- Unemployment: 7.9% (3.2–12.6%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
New York city is served by 2,102 churches — about one congregation for every 4,102 residents.
Churches near Saint Stephens English Methodist Church
- Carolina Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Johns Convent — 0.1 mi away
- St. Joseph Cursillo Center — 0.1 mi away
- Roman Catholic Church of Saint John — 0.2 mi away in Bronx, NY
- Church of the Mediator — 0.2 mi away in Bronx, NY
- Iglesia Agua de Vida — 0.2 mi away
- Greek Orthodox Church of St Nektarios — 0.4 mi away
- Kingsbridge Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Spanish SDA Bailey — 0.4 mi away
- Riverdale Community Church — 0.4 mi away in Bronx, NY
More Methodist churches nearby
- Bethel Global Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away in Bronx, NY
- Bethel United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Fordham Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Calvary Methodist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Tremont United Methodist Church — 2.1 mi away