First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Knoxville, IA 50138. It is one of 33 churches in Knoxville, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
Knoxville, IA, 50138First 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 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 43.8%
- Social Isolation: 33.7%
- Depression: 23.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.7%
- Food Insecurity: 16.7%
- Poverty Rate: 16.6% (9.9–23.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Knoxville city is served by 21 churches — about one congregation for every 114 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Living Word Fellowship — 0.1 mi away
- Trinity Chapel — 0.1 mi away
- Christs Church — 0.1 mi away
- Free Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Assembly of God Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Journey Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Riverside Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- Knoxville Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Friendship Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Free Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Attica United Methodist Church — 7.3 mi away
- New Hope United Methodist Church — 10 mi away in Melcher-Dallas, IA
- Saint Paul's Methodist Church — 10.1 mi away in Pleasantville, IA
- Columbia Methodist Church — 10.2 mi away