First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Denison, IA 51442. It is one of 19 churches in Denison.
Denison, IA, 51442First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 742 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Iowa — 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 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 26.3%
- Obesity: 44.9%
- Social Isolation: 36.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.8%
- Diabetes: 15.0%
- Child Poverty: 28.6% (10.0–47.2%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.9%
- Poverty Rate: 21.4% (11.8–31.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 18.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.4% (6.3–16.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Denison city is served by 13 churches — about one congregation for every 680 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Denison Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Pioneer Southern Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Journey Church — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia Fuente De Vida — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Rose of Lima Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Redeemer Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Zion Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Amigos en Cristo Church — 0.3 mi away
- Community of Christ — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
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- United Methodist Church — 13.3 mi away in Defiance, IA
- United Methodist Church — 16.6 mi away in Manning, IA