First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 707 Earl Ave in Claxton, GA 30417. It is one of 35 churches in Claxton.
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707 Earl Ave, Claxton, GA, 30417Service times
Friday | 9:00 a.m (as listed)
Phone: (912) 739-1326 · Website: http://athensfirstumc.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.
Ministries at First United Methodist Church
- Livestream
- Special Needs Ministry
- College & Young Adults
- Congregational Care
- Kids Ministry
- Missions
- Children's Music
- Wesleyan Youth Choir
- Adult Music
- Concert Series
- Christmas at Biltmore
- Recreation
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The community around First United Methodist Church
It takes 2.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Diabetes: 18.2%
- Obesity: 42.5%
- Social Isolation: 38.2%
- Child Poverty: 34.5% (18.7–50.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.2%
- Food Insecurity: 24.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.4% (11.0–21.7%)
- Poverty Rate: 21.1% (14.4–27.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 18.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Claxton Primitive Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Claxton First United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First African Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- GraceTruth Church — 0.8 mi away
- Eastside Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Rehoboth Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Thomas Grove African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.9 mi away
- United House of Prayer For All People — 0.9 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Claxton First United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Thomas Grove African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.9 mi away
- Bible Holiness Church — 1 mi away in Hagan, GA
- Hagan First Methodist Church — 1 mi away in Hagan, GA
- Union United Methodist Church — 4 mi away