Porter Christian Methodist Episcopal Temple
Porter Christian Methodist Episcopal Temple is a Methodist church at 3223 Elsie Faye Heggins Street in Dallas, TX 75215. It is one of 1,880 churches in Dallas, and one of 37 Methodist congregations in the city.
3223 Elsie Faye Heggins Street, Dallas, TX, 75215Porter Christian Methodist Episcopal Temple is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,579 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Texas — 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 Porter Christian Methodist Episcopal Temple
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third 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.
- Obesity: 48.7%
- Child Poverty: 40.8% (22.0–59.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.1%
- Poverty Rate: 30.6% (19.7–41.5%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 28.9% (20.5–37.3%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 26.0%
- Diabetes: 21.0%
- Unemployment: 12.4% (4.1–20.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 1 census tracts near this church.
Dallas city is served by 1,325 churches — about one congregation for every 1,008 residents.
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- Beautiful Gate Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Watermark South Dallas — 0.3 mi away
- Beginners Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Kingdom Fellowship Church — 0.4 mi away
- Passion of Christ First Community Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
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- Smith Chapel AME Church — 2.7 mi away