First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Gainesville, GA 30501. It is one of 181 churches in Gainesville, and one of 6 Methodist congregations in the city.
Gainesville, GA, 30501First 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 a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Social Isolation: 40.7%
- Food Insecurity: 34.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 30.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 29.9% (22.1–37.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 25.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.3%
- Diabetes: 15.0%
- Obesity: 37.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.9%
- Child Poverty: 24.1% (8.6–40.2%)
- Poverty Rate: 19.5% (11.0–28.0%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Gainesville city is served by 29 churches — about one congregation for every 1,937 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Westminster Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Conexion Church — 0.1 mi away
- St. Luke Church on the Square — 0.1 mi away
- Grace Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Paul United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mission Gainesville — 0.3 mi away
- Mountain Lake Church Gainesville — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Michaels Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Holiness Church — 0.5 mi away
- Iglesia Evangelica Apostoles Y Profetas — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint Paul United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Chicopee United Methodist Church — 3.4 mi away
- Gainesville First United Methodist Church — 3.4 mi away
- McEver Road United Methodist Church — 4.4 mi away in Oakwood, GA
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