First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 915 2nd Ave in Fairbanks, AK 99701-4352. It is one of 69 churches in Fairbanks.
We embrace the fundamentals of the Wesleyan tradition and dedicate ourselves to the mission of making disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world.
The United Methodist Church is founded on a Wesleyan theology of grace, anchored in Scripture and based in the life and teachings of Jesus Christ and the continuing movement of the Holy Spirit.
Serving since 1952
915 2nd Ave, Fairbanks, AK, 99701-4352Service times
- Monday 7pm · of th
Phone: (907) 452-2956 · Website: https://www.fairbanksfumc.org/
First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 30 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Alaska — 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.
Ministries at First United Methodist Church
- Food Missions
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Latest from First United Methodist Church of Fairbanks's YouTube channel: The Past Pursues, the Future’s Unknown - September 13, 2026 (all videos).
The community around First United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 34.9%
- Unemployment: 9.6% (2.1–17.1%)
- Obesity: 39.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.0%
- Food Insecurity: 18.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.1% (5.8–18.4%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Christian Science Church, Fairbanks, Alaska — 0.1 mi away
- First Church of Christ, Scientist — 0.1 mi away
- St Matthew's Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Immaculate Conception Parish — 0.3 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Fairbanks Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- North Gate House of Prayer — 0.5 mi away
- Northern Lights Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- New Birth Christian Church — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- St. Paul Church — 3.8 mi away
- St. James Temple A.M.E. Zion Church — 3.8 mi away