Shaffer United Methodist Church
Shaffer United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Cleveland, OH 44105. It is one of 783 churches in Cleveland, and one of 25 Methodist congregations in the city.
Cleveland, OH, 44105Shaffer United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,596 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Ohio — 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 Shaffer 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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, 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.
- Obesity: 46.4%
- Social Isolation: 43.6%
- Food Insecurity: 34.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.7%
- Diabetes: 21.5%
- Unemployment: 19.2% (8.7–29.7%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.1%
- Poverty Rate: 23.9% (13.2–34.6%)
- Transportation Barriers: 17.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Cleveland city is served by 361 churches — about one congregation for every 1,026 residents.
Churches near Shaffer United Methodist Church
- East Mount Vernon Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Sunlight Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Pilgrim Temple Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Life Restoration Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christ-Land Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Pentecostal True Holiness Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- Bethesda Missionary Baptist — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Harvard Ave Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- New Joshua Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Triumph Church of the New Age — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Miles Park Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Garfield Heights United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away in Garfield Heights, OH
- Zion Methodist Church — 2 mi away
- St. Paul United Methodist — 2 mi away
- Aldersgate United Methodist Church — 3.1 mi away in Warrensville Heights, OH