First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Tavares, FL 32778. It is one of 27 churches in Tavares, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
Tavares, FL, 32778First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 932 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Florida — 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 First United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes. About 1 in 5 describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 7 working-age adults 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.
- Diabetes: 15.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.1%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Tavares city is served by 17 churches — about one congregation for every 892 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Greater Blessings Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Temple Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint John Free Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Tavares Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church of God of Prophecy — 0.4 mi away
- Senda De Libertad — 0.4 mi away
- Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Union Congregational Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Life Church of God — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint John Free Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 4.1 mi away in Eustis, FL
- Morrison United Methodist Church — 4.7 mi away in Leesburg, FL
- Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church — 4.8 mi away in Eustis, FL
- Bethel United Methodist Church — 5.3 mi away in Eustis, FL