El Buen Samaritano Methodist Church
El Buen Samaritano Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Harlingen, TX 78550. It is one of 93 churches in Harlingen.
Harlingen, TX, 78550El Buen Samaritano Methodist Church 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 El Buen Samaritano Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of working-age adults live without health insurance. That is 2,200 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: 53.4% (35.5–71.3%)
- Obesity: 46.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 45.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 43.6%
- Poverty Rate: 37.0% (21.1–52.8%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 35.2% (21.3–49.1%)
- Diabetes: 25.7%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Harlingen city is served by 27 churches — about one congregation for every 2,429 residents.
Churches near El Buen Samaritano Methodist Church
- Second Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Lutheran Church Our Redeemer — 0.2 mi away
- Ministerio Amor de Cristo Kayros — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia Gloria En Gloria Pentecostes — 0.3 mi away
- Corinth Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- House of Hope — 0.4 mi away
- Our Lady of the Assumption Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Primera Iglesia Bautista — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church of Harlingen — 1 mi away
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 2 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 7.6 mi away in La Feria, TX
- La Santisima Trinidad Methodist Church — 17.7 mi away in Weslaco, TX
- First United Methodist Church — 17.8 mi away in Weslaco, TX