First Congregational Methodist Church
First Congregational Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Texarkana, AR 71854. It is one of 99 churches in Texarkana, and one of 5 Methodist congregations in the city.
Texarkana, AR, 71854First Congregational 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.
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The community around First Congregational Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is 2,200 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.
- Food Insecurity: 27.7%
- Obesity: 40.1%
- Social Isolation: 34.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.0%
- Poverty Rate: 22.4% (15.1–29.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 21.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.7%
- Diabetes: 15.7%
- Depression: 24.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Texarkana city is served by 37 churches — about one congregation for every 717 residents.
Churches near First Congregational Methodist Church
- Apostolic Tabernacle United Pentecostal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Heights Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Wards Creek Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Tree of Life Wiccan Church — 0.4 mi away
- Hickory Street Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 0.5 mi away
- Seventh Day Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Franklin Drive Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Cross Way Church — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Fairview United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 1.7 mi away
- College Hill United Methodist Church — 2.3 mi away
- Hardy Memorial United Methodist Church — 2.5 mi away
- Sugar Hill United Methodist Church — 2.7 mi away
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