St. Paul CME Church

St. Paul CME Church is a Methodist church at 1009 West 3rd Street in Chester, PA 19013. It is one of 108 churches in Chester, and one of 4 Methodist congregations in the city.

1009 West 3rd Street, Chester, PA, 19013

St. Paul CME 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 St. Paul CME Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand 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.

  • Child Poverty: 63.1% (44.2–81.9%)
  • Obesity: 47.5%
  • Poverty Rate: 37.6% (23.6–51.7%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.2%
  • Unemployment: 25.8% (11.1–40.5%)
  • Diabetes: 20.9%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.6%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Chester city is served by 86 churches — about one congregation for every 384 residents.

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