First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Bainbridge, GA 39817. It is one of 102 churches in Bainbridge, and one of 7 Methodist congregations in the city.
Bainbridge, GA, 39817First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,414 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Georgia — 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 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 50.6% (30.7–70.5%)
- Social Isolation: 40.9%
- Food Insecurity: 31.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.3%
- Diabetes: 18.7%
- Obesity: 44.3%
- Poverty Rate: 27.7% (16.1–39.4%)
- Housing Insecurity: 24.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.8% (11.3–24.3%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.3%
- Unemployment: 10.8% (2.4–19.5%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.0%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Bainbridge city is served by 33 churches — about one congregation for every 114 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Lifeline Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Harvest Ministries-Bainbridge — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Johns Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Nelson Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Bainbridge Church of God — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Nelson Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- West Bainbridge United Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away
- First Independent Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Mount Zion AME Church — 5.2 mi away
- Sutton Chapel United Methodist Church — 9.7 mi away
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