First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 344 E Morton Ave in Porterville, CA 93257-4023. It is one of 88 churches in Porterville, and one of 2 United Methodist congregations in the city.
Services in Spanish and Portuguese and Korean
344 E Morton Ave, Porterville, CA, 93257-4023Phone: +15597844232 · Website: http://umc.org/
First United 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 United Methodist Church
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 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 36.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 28.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 23.1%
- Social Isolation: 38.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.6%
- Poverty Rate: 22.4% (14.9–29.9%)
- Transportation Barriers: 18.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.3%
- Unemployment: 10.1% (4.0–16.2%)
- Obesity: 37.9%
- Depression: 23.4%
- Diabetes: 15.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.8% (6.9–16.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- The River Church — 0 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Unitarian Fellowship Church — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Del Nazareno — 0.2 mi away
- Miracle Cathedral — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Chapel of Porterville — 0.3 mi away
- First Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Emanuel Evangelical Church — 0.4 mi away
- Porterville Believers Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Congregational Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Grand Avenue United Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Lindsay United Methodist Church — 10 mi away in Lindsay, CA
- Springville United Methodist Church — 11.3 mi away in Springville, CA
- Tipton United Methodist Church — 16.9 mi away in Tipton, CA
- Evangelical Methodist Church — 16.9 mi away in Exeter, CA
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