First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 1551 El Prado Ave, CA, 90501 in Torrance, CA 90501. It is one of 113 churches in Torrance, and one of 4 Methodist congregations in the city.
We are a diverse and caring community, sharing the promise of life with Christ, passing the faith to the next generation.
1551 El Prado Ave, CA, 90501, Torrance, CA, 90501Service times
- Sunday 9:45am · morning
Phone: (310) 328-3242 · Website: https://firstumctorrance.org/
First 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.
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Latest from First UMC Torrance's YouTube channel: Worship 09.13.2026 - Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost (all videos).
The community around First United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and nearly a quarter have no one they feel they can count on. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 38.9%
- Unemployment: 9.1% (2.8–15.4%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Torrance city is served by 30 churches — about one congregation for every 4,848 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Andrews Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Torrance True Love Church — 0.1 mi away
- Resonate Church La — 0.1 mi away
- Nativity Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Restore Church — 0.3 mi away
- St. Matthew Orthodox Church — 0.3 mi away
- Branch of Hope — 0.3 mi away
- Redondo Beach Church Of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Christ Our Savior Anglican Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Faith United Methodist Church — 2.3 mi away
- Christian United Methodist Church — 2.5 mi away
- South Bay Free Methodist Church — 2.8 mi away in Lomita, CA
- Walteria United Methodist Church — 2.8 mi away
- Wayside United Methodist Church — 3.1 mi away in Lomita, CA
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