First United Methodist Church

First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Los Angeles, CA 90731. It is one of 2,252 churches in Los Angeles, and one of 58 Methodist congregations in the city.

We seek to be people who worship God with open hearts, open minds and open doors.

Welcome to Your Neighborhood ChurchWe are a welcoming and loving community of Christian faith in the heart of Pasadena.

Serving since 1874 · Part of Reconciling Ministries Network

Los Angeles, CA, 90731

Service times

  • Sunday 10am
  • Sunday 9am
  • Tuesday 10am

Shares a ministry location with Lighthouse SDA Church of San Pedro.

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.

Ministries at First United Methodist Church

  • Children's Ministries

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The community around First United Methodist Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 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: 42.8%
  • Food Insecurity: 33.3%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.0%
  • Housing Insecurity: 26.7%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.5%
  • Poverty Rate: 25.7% (15.7–35.7%)
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.0%
  • Diabetes: 15.0%
  • Unemployment: 9.5% (4.8–14.2%)
  • Transportation Barriers: 16.0%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.7% (6.6–20.8%)
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.9%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Los Angeles city is served by 867 churches — about one congregation for every 4,457 residents.

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