Goddard United Methodist Church
Goddard United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Fort Smith, AR 72901. It is one of 214 churches in Fort Smith, and one of 12 Methodist congregations in the city.
With these shared values, we are enthusiastic about the future of Goddard United Methodist Church.
Serving since 1940
Fort Smith, AR, 72901Service times
- Sunday 10:50am
Phone: (479) 785-1415 · Website: http://goddardumc.org/
Goddard United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 543 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Arkansas — 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 Goddard United Methodist Church
- Food Ministries
- Children’s Literacy Efforts
- Disaster Relief
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Latest from Goddard UMC's YouTube channel: Sunday, September 13, 2026 - Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost (all videos).
The community around Goddard United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 37.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.3%
- Poverty Rate: 27.8% (18.2–37.5%)
- Depression: 27.4%
- Food Insecurity: 24.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.3%
- Unemployment: 8.8% (2.7–14.9%)
- Obesity: 39.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.8%
- Diabetes: 14.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.1% (7.5–18.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Fort Smith city is served by 138 churches — about one congregation for every 625 residents.
Churches near Goddard United Methodist Church
- Iglesia La Casa Del Pan — 0.1 mi away
- Lighthouse Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Vietnamese Gospel Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mision Cristiana Salim — 0.3 mi away
- South Side Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Evangelical Temple Assembly of God Church — 0.4 mi away
- Evangel Temple — 0.4 mi away
- Park Hill Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Southside Nazarene Church — 0.5 mi away
- Fortress House of Prayer — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Mallalieu United Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Quinn Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.4 mi away
- Mt. Zion CME Church — 1.5 mi away
- Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.5 mi away
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