Embury United Methodist Church
Embury United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 942 South Main Avenue in Scranton, PA 18504. It is one of 88 churches in Scranton.
942 South Main Avenue, Scranton, PA, 18504Embury 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.
Find Embury United Methodist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Embury United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. That is two thousand 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.
- Poverty Rate: 24.0% (12.8–35.2%)
- Child Poverty: 24.9% (10.0–39.8%)
- Depression: 23.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.2%
- Unemployment: 7.2% (1.0–13.7%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Scranton city is served by 33 churches — about one congregation for every 2,306 residents.
Churches near Embury United Methodist Church
- Fr. Michael Salvagna, CP — 0.2 mi away
- Basilica of the National Shrine of St. Ann — 0.2 mi away
- SS. Peter & Paul Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Community of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Trinity Congregational Church — 0.6 mi away
- United Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Iglesia Pentecostal Rey De Reyes — 0.7 mi away
- St John's Byzantine Church — 0.7 mi away
- SS Peter and Paul Center — 0.8 mi away
- St Patrick Catholic Church — 0.8 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Elm Park Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Taylor Primitive Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away in Taylor, PA
- Bethel Ame Church — 1.8 mi away
- Asbury United Methodist Church — 2.7 mi away
- Stewart Memorial United Methodist Church — 3.1 mi away in Old Forge, PA
See all churches in Scranton, PA · All churches in Pennsylvania