Evangelical Wesleyan Church
Evangelical Wesleyan Church is a Wesleyan church at 728 North Irving Street in Allentown, PA 18109. It is one of 183 churches in Allentown, and one of 2 Wesleyan congregations in the city.
728 North Irving Street, Allentown, PA, 18109Evangelical Wesleyan Church is part of the Wesleyan-Holiness family of churches in The American Church Story. 152 congregations of the Wesleyan-Holiness family gather across Pennsylvania — 4,365 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Wesleyan-Holiness churches have insisted that God does not merely forgive people, he changes them — and they took that straight to the poorest streets they could find. The Salvation Army's kettles and soup lines, a century of rescue missions, and an early and costly record of ordaining women all came out of this family.
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The community around Evangelical Wesleyan 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 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, 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.
- Unemployment: 8.7% (2.7–14.7%)
- Obesity: 36.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.1%
- Poverty Rate: 16.2% (8.5–23.8%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.3%
- Diabetes: 13.6%
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 Evangelical Wesleyan Church
- Our Lady Help of Christians Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Cristiana Pentecostal — 0.3 mi away
- Bethel Community Church Of Lehigh Valley — 0.3 mi away
- St. John's Evangelical Congregational Church — 0.4 mi away
- Allentown Bible Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Beginnings Church of God — 0.6 mi away
- Victory Chapel — 0.6 mi away
- UPCI Linaje de Jesucristo — 0.6 mi away
- Transformation Church Lehigh Valley — 0.7 mi away
- St. Paul's United Church of Christ — 0.8 mi away
More Wesleyan-Holiness churches nearby
- CrossPoint — 1.5 mi away in Bethlehem, PA
- First Church of the Nazarene — 2.8 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 4 mi away in Bethlehem, PA
- New Journey Community Church — 5.4 mi away in Northampton, PA
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