Gadsden First United Methodist Church
Gadsden First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 115 South 5th Street in Gadsden, AL 35901. It is one of 215 churches in Gadsden, and one of 9 Methodist congregations in the city.
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115 South 5th Street, Gadsden, AL, 35901Service times
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 8am
Phone: (256) 543-8200 · Website: http://www.fumcgadsden.org/
Gadsden 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.
Ministries at Gadsden First United Methodist Church
- Workshops and Classes
- Children's Classes
- Missions
- Service Opportunities
- Children's Church
- Nursery
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The community around Gadsden 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 nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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: 84.9%
- Obesity: 50.2%
- Poverty Rate: 35.5% (23.8–47.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.4%
- Food Insecurity: 34.2%
- Diabetes: 20.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.3%
- Unemployment: 12.2% (3.2–21.1%)
- Social Isolation: 38.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.4% (9.8–25.0%)
- Transportation Barriers: 17.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.0%
- Depression: 23.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.1%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Gadsden city is served by 121 churches — about one congregation for every 258 residents.
Churches near Gadsden First United Methodist Church
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Cornerstone Church — 0.1 mi away
- Gadsden Vineyard Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint James Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Sweet Home Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Henry Street Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Christian Science Society Church — 0.5 mi away
- Episcopal Church of the Holy Comforter — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Sweet Home Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Southern Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Central United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Grants Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.8 mi away
- Saint John Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.8 mi away