What time are services at First Methodist Church?

First Methodist Church meets Sunday at 10:30am (mornings). Times are the church's local time — confirm with the church before visiting.

What denomination is First Methodist Church?

First Methodist Church in Oroville, CA is a Methodist church.

First Methodist Church

First Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Oroville, CA 95965. It is one of 52 churches in Oroville.

In 1857, the Methodist Society was organized by J.R. Tansey and was headquartered at Bidwell Bar, although the first services were held at Long Bar mining camp in 1849.

Serving since 1965

Oroville, CA, 95965

Service times

Sunday 10:30am · mornings

First 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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Latest from 1st UMC of Oroville, CA's YouTube channel: 9-13-26 Service (all videos).

The community around First Methodist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand 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.

Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.8%
Food Insecurity: 30.6%
Child Poverty: 39.4% (23.1–55.7%)
Social Isolation: 37.9%
Depression: 29.4%
Poverty Rate: 28.0%
Housing Insecurity: 21.9%
Diabetes: 15.1%
Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.3%
Unemployment: 10.3% (2.3–18.3%)
Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.7%
Transportation Barriers: 16.4%

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

Oroville city is served by 15 churches — about one congregation for every 900 residents.

Churches near First Methodist Church

First Congregational Church — 0 mi away
Jordan Crossing Ministries — 0.1 mi away
Saint Pauls Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
Kingdom Community Church — 0.2 mi away
BURN Oroville — 0.2 mi away
Saint Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
Unity of Oroville — 0.3 mi away
Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
Open Door Church — 0.5 mi away

More Methodist churches nearby

The Table Church — 1.1 mi away
First United Methodist Church of Oroville — 1.3 mi away
Foothill Community Free Methodist — 1.7 mi away
Biggs United Methodist Church — 10.6 mi away in Biggs, CA
Durham Community-United Methodist Church — 16 mi away in Durham, CA

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