First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 217 South Main Street in Baxley, GA 31513. It is one of 79 churches in Baxley, and one of 2 United Methodist congregations in the city.
WE BELIEVE THAT THE BAXLEY FIRST CHURCH EXISTS FOR WORSHIP, PRAYER, FELLOWSHIP, TRAINING AND OUTREACH IN ORDER TO RECONCILE OURSELVES AND OTHERS WITH GOD IN A CELEBRATION OF HIS LOVE AS EXPRESSED IN JESUS CHRIST THROUGH THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
217 South Main Street, Baxley, GA, 31513Service times
- Sunday 9:45am · School Worship
- Sunday 11am · School Worship
Phone: (912) 367-1248 · Website: http://www.baxleyfumc.org
First 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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Latest from Baxley First Church's YouTube channel: Baxley First Church August 2 2026 (all videos).
The community around First United Methodist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 26.1%
- Obesity: 40.9%
- Social Isolation: 37.5%
- Child Poverty: 35.7% (17.0–54.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.6%
- Poverty Rate: 23.7% (12.1–35.3%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.8%
- Diabetes: 17.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.4% (8.4–24.5%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.2%
- Unemployment: 6.9% (0.4–14.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Baxley city is served by 17 churches — about one congregation for every 159 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- The Rooftop Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint James African Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Christopher Roman Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Dunn Memorial Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- The Church of God of Prophecy — 0.4 mi away
- Baxley Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church of God — 0.5 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Temple — 0.5 mi away
- Life Cathedral Mission — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint James African Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christ Community Church — 1.7 mi away
- Crosby Chapel United Methodist Church — 4 mi away
- Hopewell United Methodist Church — 6.1 mi away
- Meltons Chapel United Methodist Church — 7.7 mi away