First Methodist Church
First Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 304 N Main Street in Searcy, AR 72143. It is one of 81 churches in Searcy, and one of 6 Methodist congregations in the city.
Our mission at Searcy First is to GLORIFY God, GROW in full devotion to Jesus Christ, and to CONNECT the unconnected.
The history of Searcy First Methodist Church is long and rich. We can confidently trace our heritage back to the incorporation of Searcy in 1836, although it is believed our faith community began even earlier. Our congregation was originally part of the Little Rock Circuit and called the Little Red River Mission. It was then visited by circuit rider preachers who made their rounds on horseback. In 1851 we were known as the Searcy Mission, and four lots of land where our sanctuary now sits were donated and deeded to our congregation by Israel M. Moore, a surveyer from Pennsylvania who settled i
304 N Main Street, Searcy, AR, 72143Service times
- Sunday 9am
- Sunday 11am
Phone: (501) 268-5896 · Website: https://searcyfirst.org/
First 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 Methodist Church
- Children's Church
- Sunday School
- Kidz Choir
- Bright Night
- Confirmation Class
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The community around First Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Poverty Rate: 34.3% (21.2–47.4%)
- Social Isolation: 38.3%
- Depression: 29.0%
- Food Insecurity: 24.4%
- Obesity: 37.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.2%
- Unemployment: 6.2% (1.6–10.8%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Searcy city is served by 26 churches — about one congregation for every 416 residents.
Churches near First Methodist Church
- Searcy Cumberland Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Park Ave Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Pleasant Grove Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Downtown Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- College Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Paul Global Methodist Church — 2.1 mi away
- Gum Springs United Methodist Church — 2.8 mi away
- Ellis Chapel United Methodist Church — 7.6 mi away
- Harmony United Methodist Church — 9.7 mi away