First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 518 19th Street North in Birmingham, AL 35203. It is one of 848 churches in Birmingham, and one of 5 United Methodist congregations in the city.
We are First Church, an Open Place for ALL to Worship, Grow, and Serve, and there is a valuable place for you in our community of faith.
We are a unique community of faith made up of long-time church members as well as those who recently started attending, life-long United Methodists as well as people from other denominations or no religious background.
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518 19th Street North, Birmingham, AL, 35203Service times
- Sunday 9:30am · mornings we offer a nursery
Phone: (205) 254-3186 · Website: https://www.firstchurchbhm.com/
First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,361 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Alabama — 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 First United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Child Poverty: 90.4%
- Social Isolation: 41.0%
- Food Insecurity: 34.9%
- Poverty Rate: 33.0% (19.8–46.3%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.4%
- Obesity: 42.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.9%
- Diabetes: 17.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.9% (10.5–17.6%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.2% (3.5–21.0%)
- Unemployment: 6.4% (0.1–12.9%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Birmingham city is served by 254 churches — about one congregation for every 722 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Cathedral Church of the Advent — 0.1 mi away
- Rock City Church Downtown — 0.3 mi away
- City Church Midtown — 0.3 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Sixteenth Street Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.3 mi away
- Beulah Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Paul United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Cathedral of Saint Paul — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Paul United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- St John A.M.E. Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church of the Reconciler — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Marks African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.2 mi away
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