First Methodist Episcopal Church of Glendale

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Glendale is a Methodist church at 702 North 58th Drive in Glendale, AZ 85301. It is one of 160 churches in Glendale.

702 North 58th Drive, Glendale, AZ, 85301

Shares a ministry location with First United Methodist Church.

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Glendale is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 101 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Arizona — 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 Methodist Episcopal Church of Glendale

Within a few blocks of these doors, 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 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 34.0%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.6%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 26.5%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 21.2% (14.8–27.6%)
  • Child Poverty: 36.9% (18.7–55.0%)
  • Social Isolation: 36.1%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.1%
  • Poverty Rate: 24.1% (13.0–35.2%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 23.4%
  • Diabetes: 15.0%
  • Obesity: 37.2%
  • Transportation Barriers: 16.3%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.3%
  • Unemployment: 8.0% (3.4–12.5%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Glendale city is served by 36 churches — about one congregation for every 7,054 residents.

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