First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Dumas, AR 71639. It is one of 43 churches in Dumas.
Dumas, AR, 71639First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 538 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Arkansas — 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 United Methodist Church
It takes 4.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, 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.
- Child Poverty: 55.4% (37.6–72.0%)
- Obesity: 50.5%
- Food Insecurity: 42.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 41.4%
- Poverty Rate: 30.6% (19.8–41.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 30.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.1%
- Diabetes: 24.6%
- Social Isolation: 38.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.2%
- Unemployment: 9.7% (3.6–15.9%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- First Baptist Church of Dumas — 0.1 mi away
- Abundant Life Worship Center Of Dumas — 0.3 mi away
- Longstreet Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- New Testament Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mt. Moriah Missionary Baptist Church Dumas Arkansas — 0.6 mi away
- Calvary Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Holy Child Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
- Harvest Time Community Fellowship Church — 0.6 mi away
- True Harvest Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Northside Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Tillar United Methodist Church — 12.3 mi away in Tillar, AR
- Mount Tabor United Methodist Church — 13.3 mi away in Monticello, AR
- Greenmount African Methodist Episcopal Church — 15.8 mi away in Monticello, AR
- Oak Grove Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 16.4 mi away in Dermott, AR
- Trinity Methodist Church — 16.5 mi away in Star City, AR