Doctor Edwards Memorial Congregational Church
Doctor Edwards Memorial Congregational Church is a Presbyterian church at 668 Main Street in Edwardsville, PA 18704. It is one of 10 churches in Edwardsville, and one of 3 Presbyterian congregations in the city.
668 Main Street, Edwardsville, PA, 18704Doctor Edwards Memorial Congregational Church is part of the Presbyterian family of churches in The American Church Story. 884 congregations of the Presbyterian family gather across Pennsylvania — 11,639 across the United States on The Church Map.
Presbyterians gave American Christianity much of its backbone: seminaries, catechisms, and shared government by elders rather than by one man, a habit that shaped the country's civic life as much as its churches. They have been among the most persistent builders of colleges, hospitals, and mission agencies this nation has.
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The community around Doctor Edwards Memorial Congregational Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. 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 2,100 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.
- Obesity: 42.5%
- Child Poverty: 35.4% (17.1–53.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.3%
- Poverty Rate: 24.2% (15.3–33.1%)
- Unemployment: 10.2% (3.6–16.9%)
- Depression: 25.6%
- Diabetes: 13.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Edwardsville borough is served by 8 churches — about one congregation for every 615 residents.
Churches near Doctor Edwards Memorial Congregational Church
- Green Street Baptist Chapel — 0.1 mi away
- Resurrection of the Lord Polish National Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Immanuel Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Vladimir Ukrainian Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bethesda Congregational Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint John the Baptist Orthodox Church — 0.3 mi away
- Full Gospel Slavic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Faith and Life Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Welsh Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Grace Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away in Kingston, PA
More Presbyterian churches nearby
- Bethesda Congregational Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Welsh Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Wyoming Valley Presbyterian Church — 2.2 mi away in Wilkes-Barre, PA
- Pilgrim Congregational Church — 2.6 mi away in Plymouth, PA
- Christ United Presbyterian — 2.7 mi away in Ashley, PA
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