Stanford United Methodist Church
Stanford United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Schenectady, NY 12304. It is one of 112 churches in Schenectady, and one of 10 Methodist congregations in the city.
Schenectady, NY, 12304Stanford 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 — 25,985 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 Stanford 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 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 10 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Food Insecurity: 30.0%
- Unemployment: 12.0% (4.8–19.3%)
- Obesity: 40.3%
- Child Poverty: 39.7% (22.3–57.0%)
- Social Isolation: 38.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.1%
- Poverty Rate: 27.4% (17.8–37.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 24.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.6%
- Diabetes: 13.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Schenectady city is served by 64 churches — about one congregation for every 1,075 residents.
Churches near Stanford United Methodist Church
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- Liberty Church — 0.2 mi away
- Calvary Tabernacle Church — 0.2 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses — 0.4 mi away
- Church of the Nazarene — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Paul The Apostle Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- La iglesia de Dios Pentecostal — 0.7 mi away
- Iglesia Pentecostal Dios Proveerá — 0.7 mi away
- Family Bible Church Rotterdam NY — 0.8 mi away in Rotterdam, NY
More Methodist churches nearby
- Carman United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Eastern Parkway Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Faith United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Christ Family Fellowship Church — 1.4 mi away
- Grace Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away
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