First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Barstow, CA 92311. It is one of 48 churches in Barstow, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
Barstow, CA, 92311First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 814 congregations of the Methodist family gather across California — 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
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. 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 lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 41.3%
- Food Insecurity: 34.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.7%
- Unemployment: 13.5% (7.8–19.4%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.8%
- Poverty Rate: 25.9% (14.5–37.4%)
- Transportation Barriers: 17.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.5%
- Obesity: 39.4%
- Depression: 23.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.0%
- Diabetes: 14.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Barstow city is served by 21 churches — about one congregation for every 1,316 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Saint Joseph Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- In HIS Presence Outreach Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Covenant Ministries Cogic — 0.2 mi away
- Mexican Congregational Church — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia De Restauración Barstow — 0.3 mi away
- Barstow Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Pauls Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Desert Fire — 0.5 mi away
- New Life Fellowship Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Congregational Church of Barstow — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Free Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
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