First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in McGehee, AR 71654. It is one of 24 churches in McGehee.
McGehee, AR, 71654First 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 4.1 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 nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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: 46.7%
- Child Poverty: 46.6% (29.0–64.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.0%
- Food Insecurity: 35.0%
- Poverty Rate: 31.9% (21.7–42.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 25.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.3%
- Diabetes: 19.9%
- Social Isolation: 37.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.3%
- Depression: 24.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- New Life Ministries Christian Center — 0 mi away
- New Life Ministries Christian Center — 0 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church of McGehee — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Paul Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Mary Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of Christ of McGehee — 0.2 mi away
- Tabernacle of Faith Full Gosepl Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church of McGehee — 0.3 mi away
- Antioch Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint Peter African Methodist Epsicopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Tillar United Methodist Church — 6.5 mi away in Tillar, AR
- Oak Grove Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 8.3 mi away in Dermott, AR
- United Methodist Church — 11.4 mi away in Arkansas City, AR
- Mount Tabor United Methodist Church — 14.8 mi away in Monticello, AR