First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Chowchilla, CA 93610. It is one of 26 churches in Chowchilla.
Chowchilla, CA, 93610First 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 a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, 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 healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.7%
- Food Insecurity: 27.9%
- Social Isolation: 36.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 21.6%
- Unemployment: 9.1% (4.3–13.9%)
- Obesity: 37.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.3%
- Depression: 23.7%
- Poverty Rate: 20.3% (11.3–29.2%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.5%
- Diabetes: 13.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Chowchilla city is served by 14 churches — about one congregation for every 666 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Valley Harvest Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Chowchilla Family Worship Center — 0.2 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witnesses — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Full Gospel Truth Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Southern Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Le Grand Methodist Church — 7.6 mi away in Le Grand, CA
- Madera United Methodist Church — 15.5 mi away in Madera, CA
- Holy Trinity Episcopal Church — 15.5 mi away in Madera, CA
- Madera United Methodist Church — 15.8 mi away in Madera, CA
- United Methodist Church of Merced — 16.3 mi away in Merced, CA
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