South Avenue United Methodist Church

South Avenue United Methodist Church is a church in Wilkinsburg, PA 15221. It is one of 29 churches in Wilkinsburg.

Wilkinsburg, PA, 15221

South Avenue 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 South Avenue 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 nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,200 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: 41.6%
Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.6%
Poverty Rate: 25.5% (16.0–35.0%)
Diabetes: 16.2%
Unemployment: 11.5% (4.2–18.8%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Wilkinsburg borough is served by 23 churches — about one congregation for every 623 residents.

Churches near South Avenue United Methodist Church

Maranatha Bible Baptist Church — 0 mi away
Mulberry Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
The Bible Chapel — 0.1 mi away in Pittsburgh, PA
Nia Community Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
Shalom Apostolic Church — 0.1 mi away
Shiloh Apostolic Church — 0.1 mi away
Saint James Roman Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
El Bethel Temple Church — 0.1 mi away
Saint Mark African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.1 mi away
Christian Church Wilkinsburg — 0.2 mi away in Pittsburgh, PA

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