First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Covington, GA 30014. It is one of 138 churches in Covington, and one of 9 Methodist congregations in the city.
Covington, GA, 30014First 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 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 46.0%
- Social Isolation: 40.9%
- Food Insecurity: 31.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.3%
- Diabetes: 18.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.8%
- Poverty Rate: 22.2% (10.4–34.0%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.3% (6.9–21.7%)
- Unemployment: 6.1% (1.4–10.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Covington city is served by 14 churches — about one congregation for every 990 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church Covington — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Judah Apostolic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Revive Church — 0.4 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- West Street Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Kingdom Connection Ministries — 0.6 mi away
- St Paul Ame Church — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Grace United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Murray Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Moses Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Murray CME Church — 0.7 mi away
- North Covington United Methodist Church — 1 mi away