Firt United Methodist Church
Firt United Methodist Church is a church in Wauchula, FL 33873. It is one of 33 churches in Wauchula.
Wauchula, FL, 33873Firt 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 Firt United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 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, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Poverty Rate: 36.1% (25.5–46.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 29.0%
- Obesity: 42.6%
- Diabetes: 17.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.4% (10.6–22.2%)
- Unemployment: 6.5% (1.5–12.8%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Wauchula city is served by 6 churches — about one congregation for every 575 residents.
Churches near Firt United Methodist Church
- My New Life in Christ — 0 mi away
- Faith Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- St Ann's Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Maranatha Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Fountain of Life Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Faith Temple Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- St Michael Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Northside Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Southside Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- New Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.8 mi away
- Hardee County Spanish United Methodist Church — 3.9 mi away in Zolfo Springs, FL
- First United Methodist Church, Bowling Green — 6.4 mi away in Bowling Green, FL
- First United Methodist Church — 14 mi away in Fort Meade, FL
- First United Methodist Church — 19.3 mi away in Avon Park, FL