Holy Cross United Methodist Church

Holy Cross United Methodist Church is a church at 329 N 5th St in Reading, PA 19601-3001. It is one of 144 churches in Reading.

329 N 5th St, Reading, PA, 19601-3001

Phone: +16103737260 · Website: http://holycrossumc.com/

Holy Cross 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 Holy Cross United Methodist Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,500 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: 52.2% (33.0–71.4%)
  • Obesity: 45.2%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.9%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 28.5%
  • Unemployment: 14.3% (1.7–26.9%)
  • Poverty Rate: 28.9% (19.0–38.8%)
  • Diabetes: 17.2%
  • Depression: 23.8%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

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