First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Ocala, FL 34470. It is one of 378 churches in Ocala, and one of 13 Methodist congregations in the city.
Ocala, FL, 34470First 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.
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The community around First United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand 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.
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.6% (10.9–24.3%)
- Obesity: 37.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.7%
- Poverty Rate: 16.2% (8.1–24.3%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.4%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Ocala city is served by 118 churches — about one congregation for every 538 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- First Alliance Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Basil the Great Eastern Orthodox Church — 0.3 mi away
- Ocala Bible Chapel — 0.4 mi away
- Iglesia Ministerial El Legado De La Cruz — 0.4 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Salvation Army Church — 0.5 mi away
- Sheepgate Ministries Ocala Foursquare Church — 0.5 mi away
- Grace Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Life Tabernacle — 0.6 mi away
- The Journey Network — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Ebenezer Independent Free Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Mount Zion AME Church — 0.8 mi away
- Druid Hills United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Compassion United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Saint Pauls Church — 1.4 mi away