Saint Pauls United Methodist Church
Saint Pauls United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Defiance, OH 43512. It is one of 72 churches in Defiance, and one of 5 Methodist congregations in the city.
Defiance, OH, 43512Saint Pauls United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,576 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Ohio — 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 Saint Pauls United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, 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 more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Social Isolation: 34.3%
- Obesity: 36.2%
- Depression: 25.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.9%
- Poverty Rate: 16.1% (9.2–22.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 15.2%
- Diabetes: 14.0%
- Unemployment: 6.1% (2.4–10.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Defiance city is served by 31 churches — about one congregation for every 284 residents.
Churches near Saint Pauls United Methodist Church
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.1 mi away
- Bethel Christian Assembly Church — 0.1 mi away
- King's Cross Church — 0.1 mi away
- The Gathering Place — 0.1 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Defiance Church of the Brethren — 0.2 mi away
- Saint John Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Johns Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First Evangelical Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Independence United Methodist Church — 3.3 mi away
- Ayersville United Methodist Church — 5.2 mi away
- Florida United Methodist Church — 8.6 mi away in Florida, OH