Central United Methodist Church
Central United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 3700 Pacific Avenue in Stockton, CA 95204. It is one of 325 churches in Stockton, and one of 10 Methodist congregations in the city.
United Methodists share a common heritage with other Christians: conviction that God has mercy and love for all people; belief in a triune God: Creator, Christ, and Holy Spirit; faith in the mystery of salvation through Jesus Christ; celebration of the sacraments (Baptism and Holy Communion).
3700 Pacific Avenue, Stockton, CA, 95204Phone: (209) 466-5046 · Website: https://cumcstockton.org/
Central 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 Central United Methodist Church
- Children & Family
- Youth & Young Adult
- Adult Studies/Bible Studies
- United Methodist Women
- Small Groups
- Nursery School
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Latest from CUMC Stockton's YouTube channel: Sunday Worship Service September 13, 2026 (all videos).
The community around Central 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 1 in 5 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 36.6%
- Food Insecurity: 20.5%
- Unemployment: 8.8% (2.6–15.0%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.2%
- Poverty Rate: 16.0% (10.1–21.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Stockton city is served by 114 churches — about one congregation for every 2,684 residents.
Churches near Central United Methodist Church
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.3 mi away
- Westland, Pastor E - Cornerstone Community Church — 0.4 mi away
- Faith Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Crossover Christian Fellowship — 0.4 mi away
- Community of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Newman House — 0.4 mi away
- First Unitarian Universalist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Lukes Roman Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
- Stockton Community Christian Church — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Grace United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Saint Pauls United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Bible Methodist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church — 2.3 mi away
- Holy Cross United Methodist Church — 2.9 mi away
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