Saint Matthew's United Methodist Church
Saint Matthew's United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 501 South 18th Street in Reading, PA 19606. It is one of 144 churches in Reading, and one of 3 United Methodist congregations in the city.
501 South 18th Street, Reading, PA, 19606Phone: (610) 374-6565 · Website: https://www.stmattsumcreading.org/
Saint Matthew's 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 Saint Matthew's United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor. Nearly a quarter of working-age adults live without health insurance, and about 1 in 5 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is 2,300 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.2%
- Unemployment: 17.1% (7.5–26.7%)
- Obesity: 44.4%
- Poverty Rate: 26.8% (15.1–38.6%)
- Diabetes: 15.2%
- Depression: 25.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.3% (6.2–18.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Reading city is served by 66 churches — about one congregation for every 1,433 residents.
Churches near Saint Matthew's United Methodist Church
- Fairview Mennonite Church — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia Rehoboth Hispana — 0.2 mi away
- St. Paul Lutheran Chruch — 0.3 mi away
- Christ Community Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Mary Roman Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
- Trinity United Church of Christ — 0.8 mi away in Mount Penn, PA
- First Century Worship Center — 0.8 mi away
- Faith Lutheran Church — 0.8 mi away in Mount Penn, PA
- Grace Lutheran Church — 0.8 mi away
- Pennside Presbyterian Church — 0.8 mi away in Mount Penn, PA
More Methodist churches nearby
- Emanuel United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Holy Cross United Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away
- NorthStar United Methodist Church — 2.2 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 2.3 mi away
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 2.5 mi away
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