First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in El Centro, CA 92243. It is one of 68 churches in El Centro, and one of 3 Methodist congregations in the city.
El Centro, CA, 92243Phone: (760) 352-2942
First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 840 congregations of the Methodist family gather across California — 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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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. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly a quarter of adults are worried about keeping the housing they have. That is 2,300 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: 36.0%
- Food Insecurity: 34.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 24.1%
- Social Isolation: 39.2%
- Child Poverty: 34.3% (17.6–51.0%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.6%
- Poverty Rate: 25.5% (16.0–35.0%)
- Transportation Barriers: 17.0%
- Diabetes: 16.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.0%
- Unemployment: 9.6% (4.5–14.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
El Centro city is served by 51 churches — about one congregation for every 842 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Foursquare Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of the Nazarene — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church of El Centro — 0.1 mi away
- Shadai Int'l Church — 0.2 mi away in Holtville, CA
- Grace Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Christian Science Society — 0.2 mi away
- Potter's House Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia de Dios de la Profesia — 0.2 mi away
- New Generation Church/Iglesia Nueva Generacion — 0.2 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Johnson Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.9 mi away
- Edwards Chapel Church — 1 mi away
- First Methodist Church — 9.2 mi away in Calexico, CA
- American Methodist Church — 9.3 mi away in Calexico, CA
- First United Methodist Church of Brawley — 12.7 mi away in Brawley, CA
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