First Methodist Church
First Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Forrest City, AR 72335. It is one of 62 churches in Forrest City, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
Forrest City, AR, 72335First 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 Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 in 10 adults live with obesity. 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. 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: 50.6%
- Child Poverty: 46.3% (28.1–64.5%)
- Food Insecurity: 38.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.8%
- Poverty Rate: 32.9% (23.8–42.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 28.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.6%
- Diabetes: 20.4%
- Social Isolation: 37.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.1%
- Unemployment: 9.5% (2.5–16.5%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Forrest City city is served by 13 churches — about one congregation for every 554 residents.
Churches near First Methodist Church
- Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd — 0.1 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Poplar Grove M.B. Church — 0.2 mi away
- Graham Memorial Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Beth Salem Baptist — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Forrest City — 0.3 mi away
- Church of God of Forrest City — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Francis Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Kynette United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Wesley Chapel Methodist Church — 5.7 mi away
- Smith Chapel Methodist Church — 11.2 mi away in Wynne, AR
- Ellis Chapel United Methodist Church — 14.2 mi away in Wynne, AR
- McElroy United Methodist Church — 14.5 mi away in Wynne, AR
- Salem Methodist Church — 14.8 mi away in Palestine, AR
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