First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Americus, GA 31709. It is one of 86 churches in Americus.
Americus, GA, 31709Shares a ministry location with First Methodist Church of Americus.
First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,458 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Georgia — 25,985 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 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 41.0%
- Social Isolation: 37.4%
- Poverty Rate: 29.3% (18.1–40.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.2%
- Food Insecurity: 24.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.7% (13.0–26.3%)
- Diabetes: 16.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.3%
- Unemployment: 10.2% (4.6–15.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 19.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Americus city is served by 20 churches — about one congregation for every 106 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- First Methodist Church of Americus — 0 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- St Mary's Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Marys Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Calvary Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bethesda Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Central Church — 0.3 mi away
- Sanctified Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Campbell Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Allen Chapel AME Church — 1.6 mi away
- Benevolence United Methodist Church — 4.4 mi away
- Salem United Methodist Church — 5.6 mi away
- Andrew Chapel United Methodist Church — 7.4 mi away in Ellaville, GA