First United Methodist Church of El Cajon
First United Methodist Church of El Cajon is a Methodist church in El Cajon, CA 92020. It is one of 130 churches in El Cajon.
El Cajon, CA, 92020First United Methodist Church of El Cajon 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 of El Cajon
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 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 about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,600 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: 40.1%
- Food Insecurity: 35.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.9%
- Poverty Rate: 22.9% (14.0–31.7%)
- Transportation Barriers: 18.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.1%
- Child Poverty: 26.9% (11.5–42.3%)
- Depression: 25.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.3%
- Diabetes: 13.7%
- Unemployment: 7.6% (2.3–12.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
El Cajon city is served by 47 churches — about one congregation for every 2,111 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church of El Cajon
- Bethlehem Church — 0 mi away
- Hillside Community Church — 0 mi away
- Victory San Diego — 0.1 mi away
- Christian Fellowship — 0.1 mi away
- Independent Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Johnson Avenue Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Choice Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Iglesia Cristiana Plenitud De Vida — 0.4 mi away
- Iglesia De Dios Pentecostal M.I El Cajon — 0.5 mi away
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- San Carlos United Methodist Church — 3.4 mi away in San Diego, CA
- Santee United Methodist Church — 3.6 mi away in Santee, CA
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