St. James United Methodist Church
St. James United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 199 East Tabor Road in Philadelphia, PA 19120. It is one of 1,755 churches in Philadelphia, and one of 27 Methodist congregations in the city.
199 East Tabor Road, Philadelphia, PA, 19120St. James United Methodist 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. James United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.3%
- Diabetes: 20.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.0% (8.6–23.5%)
- Unemployment: 8.5% (2.9–14.1%)
- Obesity: 38.5%
- Poverty Rate: 21.1% (9.1–33.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), 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 St. James United Methodist Church
- Pentecostal Adulam — 0.1 mi away
- Zion Lutheran Church Olney — 0.1 mi away
- Liberty Evangelical Church — 0.1 mi away
- Triumphant Faith International Worship Center — 0.1 mi away
- church of Jesus Christ Of Later Day Saints — 0.1 mi away
- Overcomers — 0.2 mi away
- St. Thomas Malankara Orthodox Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Horizon Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Assembly of Love Church — 0.4 mi away
- St. Ambrose Roman Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Crescentville United Methodist — 1.1 mi away
- Bickley's New Beginning United — 1.2 mi away
- Mt Carmel United Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away
- El Mesias UMC — 2.3 mi away
- La Mott African Methodist Episcopal Church — 2.5 mi away in Elkins Park, PA
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