First Methodist Church
First Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 702 Avenue A in Opelika, AL 36801. It is one of 124 churches in Opelika, and one of 5 Methodist congregations in the city.
Inviting our community to find and follow the Spirit-led life in Jesus.
At First Methodist Opelika, our mission is inviting our community to find and follow the Spirit-led life in Jesus. We are a church rooted in Scripture, committed to prayer, and focused on forming followers of Jesus who serve with purpose and joy. Everything we do flows from who God is, what He has done for us in Christ, and how the Holy Spirit leads us today.
702 Avenue A, Opelika, AL, 36801Service times
9:00 and 10:30 a.m. (as listed)
Phone: (334) 745-7604 · Website: https://firstopelika.org/
First 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 First Methodist Church
- Kids Ministry
- Adult Ministries
Find First Methodist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
Watch
Latest from First Methodist Opelika's YouTube channel: Baptism Sunday | 10:30 a.m. service | 09/13/2026 (all videos).
The community around First Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Obesity: 46.9%
- Poverty Rate: 31.5% (18.3–44.7%)
- Food Insecurity: 29.9%
- Diabetes: 19.2%
- Social Isolation: 35.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 21.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Opelika city is served by 23 churches — about one congregation for every 1,207 residents.
Churches near First Methodist Church
- FBCO Kids Ministry — 0.1 mi away
- Opelika First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Emanuel Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- PIBO — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bethesda Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Ferguson Christian Methodist Episcopal Chapel — 0.3 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Bridge Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Trinity Church — 0.3 mi away
- Ferguson Christian Methodist Episcopal Chapel — 0.3 mi away
- St Luke AME Church — 0.7 mi away
- Morris Chapel United Methodist Church — 3.5 mi away
- Little Zion AME Church — 4.1 mi away