First Methodist Church
First Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Modesto, CA 95354. It is one of 190 churches in Modesto, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
Modesto, CA, 95354First 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 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. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,200 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: 35.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.2%
- Poverty Rate: 25.0% (15.4–34.6%)
- Food Insecurity: 23.9%
- Obesity: 39.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.2%
- Depression: 23.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.4%
- Unemployment: 6.7% (1.1–12.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Modesto city is served by 42 churches — about one congregation for every 4,696 residents.
Churches near First Methodist Church
- Redeemer Modesto — 0.1 mi away
- Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Free Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bethel Pentecostal Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 0.2 mi away
- Community of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Modesto Foursquare Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of the Four Square Gospel — 0.2 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Free Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Clinton African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.9 mi away
- Centenary — 2 mi away
- Hughson United Methodist Church — 7.7 mi away in Hughson, CA
- Free Methodist Church — 9.8 mi away in Ripon, CA
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