First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 109 W Valley St in Valdosta, GA 31601. It is one of 233 churches in Valdosta, and one of 4 United Methodist congregations in the city.
109 W Valley St, Valdosta, GA, 31601Service times
- Sunday 11am · School
Phone: (229) 242-4050 · Website: http://www.valdostafirstumc.org
Shares a ministry location with First Methodist Church of Valdosta.
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 Valdosta First Methodist Church's YouTube channel: August 2nd, 2026 | 11AM in the Sanctuary (all videos).
The community around First United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,100 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.
- Child Poverty: 63.6% (45.2–82.0%)
- Obesity: 53.3%
- Food Insecurity: 51.4%
- Social Isolation: 42.8%
- Poverty Rate: 41.9% (29.3–54.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 41.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 37.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 30.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 26.4%
- Diabetes: 25.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 23.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 22.1% (14.3–30.0%)
- Unemployment: 15.7% (4.5–26.8%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.0%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- First Methodist Church of Valdosta — 0 mi away
- Solomon's porch — 0 mi away
- Holiness House of Praise Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Christ the King Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mosaic United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Lee Street Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Unity Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Central Avenue Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Mosaic United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Pauls AME Church — 0.4 mi away
- Forest Street Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Timothy African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.1 mi away