Simpson United Methodist Church
Simpson United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 2113 Sassafras Street in Erie, PA 16502. It is one of 205 churches in Erie, and one of 11 United Methodist congregations in the city.
2113 Sassafras Street, Erie, PA, 16502Shares a ministry location with A United Methodist Community.
Simpson United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,293 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Pennsylvania — 25,370 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 Simpson United Methodist 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 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 88.9%
- Poverty Rate: 45.8% (33.2–58.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.7%
- Unemployment: 12.2% (3.8–20.6%)
- Obesity: 42.5%
- Diabetes: 17.4%
- Depression: 23.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Erie city is served by 103 churches — about one congregation for every 920 residents.
Churches near Simpson United Methodist Church
- A United Methodist Community — 0 mi away
- Antioch Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Johns Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Joseph Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- The Light of the World Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mission Celestial Pentecostal Church — 0.3 mi away
- True Holiness Church — 0.4 mi away
- Primera Iglesia Ebenezer Church — 0.4 mi away
- Iglesia Fuente De Salvacion — 0.4 mi away
- House Of Prayer Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Glenwood United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.8 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- First Good Samaritan Methodist Church — 1.8 mi away