Christian Church in Action;formerly First Methodist

Christian Church in Action;formerly First Methodist is a church in Long Beach, CA 90802. It is one of 336 churches in Long Beach.

Long Beach, CA, 90802

Christian Church in Action;formerly First Methodist 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 Christian Church in Action;formerly First Methodist

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 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 have no one they feel they can count on. That is 2,100 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: 41.4%
Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.9%
Food Insecurity: 22.4%
Unemployment: 9.8% (4.1–15.4%)
Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.8%
Housing Insecurity: 20.0%
Poverty Rate: 17.8% (10.3–25.2%)
Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.0% (5.4–18.6%)
Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.0%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Long Beach city is served by 143 churches — about one congregation for every 3,245 residents.

Churches near Christian Church in Action;formerly First Methodist

Covenant Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
Moore Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church South — 0.1 mi away
First Church of Christ Scientist — 0.1 mi away
First United Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
Central Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
A Village Community — 0.2 mi away
Long Beach Unity Society of Practical Christianity — 0.3 mi away
St Anthony Church — 0.3 mi away
St Lukes Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
Revive America — 0.3 mi away

More Methodist churches nearby

Moore Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church South — 0.1 mi away
Grant Chapel African Methodist — 0.8 mi away
Atlantic Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
Grace Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
East Long Beach Methodist Episcopal — 1.9 mi away

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