Tower Church - First United Methodist
Tower Church - First United Methodist is a church at 23 Chambers Street in Bradford, PA 16701. It is one of 24 churches in Bradford.
23 Chambers Street, Bradford, PA, 16701Tower Church - First United Methodist 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 Tower Church - First United Methodist
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 the people here live below the poverty line. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Poverty Rate: 30.4% (19.5–41.4%)
- Obesity: 41.7%
- Child Poverty: 30.3% (11.0–49.7%)
- Depression: 27.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.2%
- Diabetes: 13.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Bradford city is served by 11 churches — about one congregation for every 713 residents.
Churches near Tower Church - First United Methodist
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- St. Bernard's Roman Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Open Arms Community Church — 0.1 mi away
- B-Free First Free Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Hill Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bradford Mennonite Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of the Ascension — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bradford First Church of the Nazarene — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- B-Free First Free Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Hill Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- West Branch United Methodist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Custer City United Methodist Church — 3.3 mi away
- First Free Methodist Church — 13 mi away in Allegany, NY
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