First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 502 Porter Street in Helena-West Helena, AR 72342. It is one of 36 churches in Helena-West Helena, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
502 Porter Street, Helena-West Helena, AR, 72342Service times
- Sunday 10:30am
- Sunday 9:30am
- Wednesday 5pm
First 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 First United Methodist Church
- Soup Kitchen Outreach
- The Believe Project
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Latest from Helena First United Methodist Church's YouTube channel: Easter Sunday Worship at Helena First UMC 2026 (all videos).
The community around First United Methodist Church
It takes 2.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, 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.
- Obesity: 50.9%
- Food Insecurity: 39.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.3%
- Poverty Rate: 30.6% (21.7–39.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 28.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.3%
- Diabetes: 23.6%
- Unemployment: 20.8% (8.1–33.4%)
- Social Isolation: 38.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.6% (4.9–20.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.
Helena-West Helena city is served by 22 churches — about one congregation for every 67 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- St. John's Episcopal Church — 0 mi away
- Abundant Life Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away in Helena, AR
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Carter Chapel — 0.2 mi away
- Centennial Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Mary Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away in Helena, AR
- New Light Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Beautiful Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away in Helena, AR
- St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away in Helena, AR
- Galilee Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away in Helena, AR
More Methodist churches nearby
- Carter Chapel — 0.2 mi away
- West Helena United Methodist Church — 3.1 mi away
- Lula United Methodist Church — 8.3 mi away in Lula, MS
- Tunica United Methodist Church — 16 mi away in Tunica, MS
- St Peter Ame Church — 16.7 mi away in Tunica, MS
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