First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 419 Northeast 1st Street in Gainesville, FL 32601. It is one of 303 churches in Gainesville, and one of 21 Methodist congregations in the city.
The Music and Worship Arts Ministry at First United Methodist Church (FUMC) of Gainesville, Florida, is a central pillar of the church's identity, known for its "traditional style with a creative twist."
Part of Reconciling Ministries Network
419 Northeast 1st Street, Gainesville, FL, 32601Service times
- Thursday 11:15am
Phone: +1 352-372-8523 · Website: https://www.fumcgnv.org
First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 932 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Florida — 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
- Chancel Choir
- Celebration Ringers
- Fellowship of the Ringers
- Drama Ministry
- Instrumental Ensemble
- Children and Youth Music Program
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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. More than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 38.4% (27.8–48.9%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau (2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Gainesville city is served by 120 churches — about one congregation for every 1,073 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Visionaries Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Refuge Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Pleasant United Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Fourth Avenue Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Pleasant Hill Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- City Church — 0.3 mi away
- Prayers By Faith Outreach Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Maranatha Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Mount Pleasant United Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Pleasant United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Olive AME Church — 0.8 mi away
- Greater Liberty Hill United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
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