Bethany First United Methodist Church
Bethany First United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 38 East Oak Street in Shenandoah, PA 17976. It is one of 16 churches in Shenandoah.
38 East Oak Street, Shenandoah, PA, 17976Shares a ministry location with Divine Power of Christ Church Shenandoah.
Bethany First 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 Bethany First United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter 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: 41.1% (28.3–62.8%)
- Obesity: 43.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.4%
- Poverty Rate: 28.4% (19.2–37.7%)
- Diabetes: 15.5%
- Unemployment: 9.7% (5.3–14.5%)
- Depression: 25.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.7% (6.8–16.5%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Shenandoah borough is served by 12 churches — about one congregation for every 357 residents.
Churches near Bethany First United Methodist Church
- Divine Power of Christ Church Shenandoah — 0 mi away
- Saint Stephen's Slovak Catholic Church — 0 mi away
- Primitive Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Divine Mercy Parish — 0.2 mi away
- Restoration Fellowship Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Cristiana El Dios Vivo — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity United Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- St. George Church - Shenandoah — 0.2 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Primitive Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away in Gilberton, PA
- Gilberton Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away in Gilberton, PA
- First American Primitive Methodist Church — 3 mi away in Mahanoy City, PA
- Aurand Memorial United Methodist Church — 3.3 mi away in Ringtown, PA
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