Emmanuel United Methodist Church
Emmanuel United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 902 West Emaus Avenue in Allentown, PA 18103. It is one of 183 churches in Allentown, and one of 3 United Methodist congregations in the city.
902 West Emaus Avenue, Allentown, PA, 18103Emmanuel United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,331 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Pennsylvania — 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 Emmanuel 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 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about 1 in 7 the people here live without health insurance. 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.
- Child Poverty: 32.6% (16.2–49.0%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.5% (8.7–22.2%)
- Obesity: 37.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.1%
- Poverty Rate: 17.4% (8.9–25.8%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.7%
- Unemployment: 6.1% (2.6–9.8%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Allentown city is served by 86 churches — about one congregation for every 1,456 residents.
Churches near Emmanuel United Methodist Church
- Rich Youth & Family Worship Center — 0 mi away
- Waldheim Park Association — 0.3 mi away
- Barn — 0.5 mi away
- Allentown Victory — 0.6 mi away
- Lifespring International Church — 0.6 mi away
- Trinity Memorial Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away
- Word of Faith Christian Center — 0.8 mi away
- RCCG New Light Chapel — 0.9 mi away
- Parkway Church of Christ — 0.9 mi away
- Harvest Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Iglesia Methodista Libre Central De Allentown — 1.3 mi away
- St. James AME Zion Church — 2 mi away
- Transformation Church Lehigh Valley — 3.9 mi away
- Bethany United Methodist Church — 4.7 mi away
- St. John A.M.E. Zion Church — 4.8 mi away in Bethlehem, PA
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