First Methodist Church
First Methodist Church is a church in Thomaston, AL 36783. It is one of 14 churches in Thomaston.
Thomaston, AL, 36783Shares a ministry location with Thomaston United Methodist Church.
First Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,333 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Alabama — 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 Methodist Church
It takes 8.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Obesity: 48.4%
- Child Poverty: 48.2% (31.4–65.7%)
- Food Insecurity: 37.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.2%
- Poverty Rate: 34.1% (19.9–48.3%)
- Diabetes: 24.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.5%
- Social Isolation: 38.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.9% (6.4–17.4%)
- Unemployment: 6.8% (0.7–14.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Methodist Church
- Thomaston United Methodist Church — 0 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Thomaston Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Glovers Primitive Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Saint James Church — 2.3 mi away
- Glovers Primitive Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away
- Jericho Church — 3.5 mi away
- Cades Chapel — 3.6 mi away
- Goodwill Church — 4 mi away in Linden, AL
- Zion Campground Church — 4.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Dayton United Methodist Church — 5.4 mi away in Dayton, AL
- Linden Methodist Church — 10.5 mi away in Linden, AL
- Chalk Level African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 12.8 mi away in Sweet Water, AL
- Quinn African Methodist Episcopal Chapel — 14 mi away in Uniontown, AL
- First United Methodist Church of Uniontown — 14.3 mi away in Uniontown, AL