First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 397 COLLEGE STREET in Blakely, GA 39823. It is one of 62 churches in Blakely, and one of 4 Methodist congregations in the city.
We the Christian family of Blakely First Methodist Church are called of God and empowered by the Holy Spirit to provide an environment of acceptance and unconditional love through worship, fellowship, teaching and service that equip us to make disciples by sharing our faith and ministering to the needs of others.
397 COLLEGE STREET, Blakely, GA, 39823Service times
- Sunday 9am
- Sunday 10:30am
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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The community around First United Methodist Church
It takes 4.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Child Poverty: 42.1% (24.5–59.7%)
- Food Insecurity: 28.0%
- Diabetes: 19.0%
- Obesity: 41.1%
- Social Isolation: 39.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 21.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.3% (11.1–21.6%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.3%
- Poverty Rate: 21.5% (13.4–29.6%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.1%
- Unemployment: 7.0% (2.1–12.0%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Holy Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mountain Grove Freewill Baptist — 0.2 mi away
- Wesley Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Holy Family Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Free Will Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Westview United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Wesley Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Westview United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- New Prospect AME Church — 3.7 mi away
- Centerville Methodist Church — 7.7 mi away
- Ebenezer AME Church — 10.7 mi away