First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 159 East Main Street in Meriden, CT 06450. It is one of 52 churches in Meriden, and one of 2 United Methodist congregations in the city.
159 East Main Street, Meriden, CT, 06450Phone: +1 203 235 9620 · Website: https://www.firstumcmeriden.com
First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 143 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Connecticut — 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 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,100 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.
- Obesity: 45.8%
- Food Insecurity: 42.9%
- Child Poverty: 40.5% (24.4–56.5%)
- Poverty Rate: 39.8% (28.2–51.5%)
- Housing Insecurity: 33.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 26.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.0%
- Social Isolation: 38.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.7%
- Diabetes: 17.0%
- Unemployment: 6.4% (2.7–10.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Meriden city is served by 30 churches — about one congregation for every 2,018 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Meriden Church of Christ — 0 mi away
- Meriden Community Church — 0 mi away
- Life Of Faith Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Faith Center Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Pentecostés Puerta de Esperanza Meriden ct — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Stanislaus Church — 0.2 mi away
- Apostolic Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia Evangelica — 0.3 mi away
- All Souls Anglican Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Parker African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 1.5 mi away
- South Meriden Trinity United Methodist Church — 2 mi away
- Yalesville United Methodist Church — 3.3 mi away in Wallingford, CT
- Grace United Methodist Church — 5.4 mi away in Southington, CT
- Cheshire United Methodist Church — 5.6 mi away in Cheshire, CT
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