First United Methodist Church of Austin
First United Methodist Church of Austin is a Methodist church at 1201 Lavaca Street in Austin, TX 78701. It is one of 752 churches in Austin, and one of 19 Methodist congregations in the city.
First United Methodist Church of Austin is an inclusive faith community of Christian believers in the heart of downtown.
Wheelchair accessible
1201 Lavaca Street, Austin, TX, 78701Service times
- Sunday 7am
Phone: +1-512-478-5684 · Website: https://fumcaustin.org/
Shares a ministry location with John R. Murchison Memorial Chapel.
First United Methodist Church of Austin is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,558 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Texas — 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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Latest from First United Methodist Church of Austin's YouTube channel: Sunday Sunday Aug 2, 2026 (all videos).
The community around First United Methodist Church of Austin
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. Nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line, and about 1 in 7 working-age adults live without health insurance. That is 2,300 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.
- Poverty Rate: 28.9% (19.9–37.9%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.9% (6.7–19.1%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.
Austin city is served by 318 churches — about one congregation for every 2,992 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church of Austin
- John R. Murchison Memorial Chapel — 0 mi away
- Central Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Christ Science Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Church Of Christ, Scientist — 0.1 mi away
- Eva Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Mary Cathedral — 0.3 mi away
- Diocese of Austin Chancery — 0.3 mi away
- Divine Direction Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- St. Martin's Ev. Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Central Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Wesley Foundation of Austin-Campus Ministry — 0.7 mi away
- University United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Emmanuel United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Saint Luke United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away