First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Santa Maria, CA 93458. It is one of 108 churches in Santa Maria, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
LOVE BOLDLY. SERVE JOYFULLY. LEAD COURAGEOUSLY.
Santa Maria, CA, 93458Service times
- Sunday 10am · morning worshipat
- Thursday 2pm · of th
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.
Ministries at First United Methodist Church
- Showers of Blessing
- Country Oaks
- Vacation Bible School
- Sunday School
- Youth Group
- Children's Choir
- Sierra Service Project
- Camp for Children & Youth
- Chancel Choir
- Sounds of Hope (Filipino) Choir
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Latest from Santa Maria First UMC's YouTube channel: July 26, 2026 - Ninth Sunday after Pentecost - 10:00 am (all videos).
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 more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 44.3%
- Social Isolation: 42.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 34.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 30.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 21.2% (14.7–27.8%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.2%
- Poverty Rate: 25.1% (14.8–35.3%)
- Child Poverty: 28.4% (15.4–41.4%)
- Diabetes: 13.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Santa Maria city is served by 39 churches — about one congregation for every 2,678 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Saint Peter's Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- 1st Presbyterian — 0.1 mi away
- All For Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Bautista Del Sur Getsemani — 0.3 mi away
- The Salvation Army — 0.3 mi away
- Filipino Christian Church of Santa Maria — 0.3 mi away
- LLDM Santa Maria California — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Mary of the Assumption Church — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia La Luz del Mundo — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Christ United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Saint Andrew United Methodist Church — 4.4 mi away
- Harvest Church — 14.4 mi away in Arroyo Grande, CA
- First United Methodist Church — 14.7 mi away in Arroyo Grande, CA
- Shell Beach United Methodist Church — 19.4 mi away in Pismo Beach, CA
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