First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Tucson, AZ 85719. It is one of 498 churches in Tucson, and one of 3 Methodist congregations in the city.
First Church Tucson is a courageous church! Established in 1879 as the first Protestant church in our city, First Church Tucson continues to pave the way in creating a faith community that embraces all peoples into the grace of God.
Tucson, AZ, 85719Service times
- Sunday 10am · before or after
- Thursday 6:30pm
First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 104 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Arizona — 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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Latest from Tucson First UMC's YouTube channel: Sunday Morning Live! 09/13/2026 요한복음 20:24–29 (all videos).
The community around First United Methodist Church
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. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.
- Social Isolation: 44.9%
- Poverty Rate: 43.0%
- Depression: 34.0%
- Food Insecurity: 24.9% (18.6–31.2%)
- Transportation Barriers: 18.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.5%
- Unemployment: 7.7% (3.5–11.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Tucson city is served by 85 churches — about one congregation for every 6,124 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Damascus Road Tucson — 0.1 mi away
- Christian Challenge — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Vineyard Christian Community — 0.3 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Tucson LDS Institute of Religion — 0.4 mi away
- Doxa Church — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Southern Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- City Of Grace Tucson — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Phillips Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 1 mi away
- Prince Chapel AME Church — 1.4 mi away
- Catalina United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Trinity Temple CME Church — 2.2 mi away
- St. James United Methodist Church — 2.6 mi away