Bennett-Derr United Methodist Church
Bennett-Derr United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church in Wilkes-Barre, PA 18702. It is one of 82 churches in Wilkes-Barre, and one of 4 United Methodist congregations in the city.
Wilkes-Barre, PA, 18702Bennett-Derr 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 Bennett-Derr United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 7 the people here live without health insurance. That is two thousand 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.
- Obesity: 42.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.7% (8.3–23.1%)
- Depression: 23.9%
- Child Poverty: 22.5% (5.2–40.4%)
- Poverty Rate: 18.0% (10.9–25.2%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.4%
- Diabetes: 13.7%
- Unemployment: 6.3% (1.3–11.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Wilkes-Barre city is served by 54 churches — about one congregation for every 820 residents.
Churches near Bennett-Derr United Methodist Church
- Holy Saviour Church — 0.1 mi away
- East End PM Church — 0.3 mi away
- Wesley Chapel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Iglesia Cristiana Nueva Jerusalem — 0.5 mi away
- Holy Cross Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- St. Luke's United Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
- New Hope Church — 0.7 mi away
- Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Wyoming Valley — 0.7 mi away
- Our Lady Of Fatima Grotto — 0.7 mi away
- Iglesia Nueva Vida En Cristo — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Central United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Albright United Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Parsons Primitive Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Dorranceton United Methodist Church — 2 mi away in Kingston, PA
- Laurel Run Primitive Methodist Church — 2.3 mi away in Laurel Run, PA
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