First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 214 East Jefferson Street in Iowa City, IA 52245. It is one of 75 churches in Iowa City, and one of 4 Methodist congregations in the city.
To be disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world.
The First United Methodist Church and Wesley Foundation of Iowa City is committed to living the Christian values of love, faith, and grace. As Jesus taught, we commit ourselves to being welcoming of all.
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214 East Jefferson Street, Iowa City, IA, 52245Service times
- Sunday 1pm–6pm
- Sunday 9:15am–10:15am
Phone: (319) 337-2857 · Website: http://www.icfirstchurch.org/
First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 743 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Iowa — 25,985 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 First United Methodist Church's YouTube channel: September 13, 2026 Sunday Morning Worship (all videos).
The community around First United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,400 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.
- Poverty Rate: 68.3%
- Social Isolation: 42.0%
- Food Insecurity: 30.8%
- Depression: 29.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.0%
- Unemployment: 6.4% (3.1–9.7%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Iowa City city is served by 43 churches — about one congregation for every 1,698 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Geneva Campus Ministry — 0 mi away
- Wesley Student Center — 0 mi away
- Saint Marys Church — 0 mi away
- Gloria Dei Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Chinese Evangelical Church in Iowa City (CECIIC) — 0.1 mi away
- Newman Catholic Student Center — 0.1 mi away
- Congregational United Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Sacred Collective — 0.1 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Grace Community Church - Downtown Iowa City — 0.1 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Wesley Student Center — 0 mi away
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Marks United Methodist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Coralville United Methodist Church — 2.9 mi away in Coralville, IA
- In Christ United Methodist Church — 3.8 mi away