Saint James Kingsessing Episcopal Church
Saint James Kingsessing Episcopal Church is a Episcopal church at 6838 Woodland Avenue in Philadelphia, PA 19142. It is one of 1,755 churches in Philadelphia, and one of 27 Episcopal congregations in the city.
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6838 Woodland Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, 19142Service times
- Sunday 10am · ServiceJoin us
Phone: +1 215-727-5265; +1 267-586-4096 · Website: https://stjameskingsessing.org
Saint James Kingsessing Episcopal Church is part of the Anglican and Episcopal family of churches in The American Church Story. 254 congregations of the Anglican and Episcopal family gather across Pennsylvania — 5,448 across the United States on The Church Map.
Anglicans gave the English-speaking church the words it still prays in: the Book of Common Prayer, and a translation of Scripture that shaped four centuries of worship, writing, and speech. Holding evangelical, catholic, and liberal convictions inside one communion has made them a long school of patience for every tradition that came after.
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The community around Saint James Kingsessing Episcopal Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. More than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 50.7% (33.7–67.7%)
- Poverty Rate: 41.2% (30.6–51.9%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.1%
- Unemployment: 22.1% (12.5–31.8%)
- Diabetes: 18.6%
- Obesity: 41.1%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Philadelphia city is served by 1,051 churches — about one congregation for every 1,515 residents.
Churches near Saint James Kingsessing Episcopal Church
- Southwest Philly Church of the Nazarene — 0.1 mi away
- Mt. Moriah Apostolic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Debre Genet Kidus Amannuel Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church — 0.1 mi away
- Temple of Love & Redemption — 0.2 mi away
- New Fellowship Baptist — 0.2 mi away
- New Life Christian Fellowship — 0.2 mi away
- New Hope International Baptist — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Hope Christian Academy — 0.2 mi away
- New Birth Fellowship Tabernacle Church — 0.3 mi away
- United Church of Jesus Christ — 0.3 mi away
More Anglican churches nearby
- St. George St. Barnabas Episcopal — 2.2 mi away
- Grace Reformed Episcopal Church — 2.2 mi away in Collingdale, PA
- Holy Apostles and the Mediator Episcopal Church — 2.4 mi away
- Saint Mary's Church — 2.9 mi away
- Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral — 3.2 mi away
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