West Side United Methodist Church
West Side United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 305 Atlantic Avenue in McKeesport, PA 15132. It is one of 50 churches in McKeesport.
305 Atlantic Avenue, McKeesport, PA, 15132West Side 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 West Side United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, about 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. Nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter 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.
- Unemployment: 14.4% (5.1–23.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.3%
- Poverty Rate: 24.5% (15.4–33.5%)
- Diabetes: 15.1%
- Obesity: 37.1%
- Depression: 24.8%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
McKeesport city is served by 31 churches — about one congregation for every 572 residents.
Churches near West Side United Methodist Church
- Transfiguration of Our Lord Church (historic) — 0.4 mi away
- Holy Trinity Church — 0.5 mi away
- Judah Ministries International Worship Center — 0.5 mi away
- Immanuel United Presbyterian Church (historic) — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Martin Deporres Parish — 0.5 mi away
- Word Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Stephen's Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Christ Temple A.M.E. — 0.6 mi away
- Voice of Vision Outreach Ministries — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Christ Temple African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Dravosburg United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away in Dravosburg, PA
- Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.9 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Port Vue United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away in Port Vue, PA
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