First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Marshalltown, IA 50158. It is one of 56 churches in Marshalltown, and one of 5 Methodist congregations in the city.
Marshalltown, IA, 50158First 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 describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 48.1%
- Social Isolation: 33.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.3%
- Food Insecurity: 23.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.5%
- Child Poverty: 22.7% (8.2–37.2%)
- Poverty Rate: 18.8% (11.6–26.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 17.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.3%
- Diabetes: 14.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.4%
- Unemployment: 6.1% (2.1–10.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Marshalltown city is served by 37 churches — about one congregation for every 533 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Vinyard Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Central Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Elm Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Congregational Church — 0.1 mi away
- Salvation Army Citadel — 0.1 mi away
- St. Francis of Assisi Marshalltown — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Mary's Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Powerhouse: Ministry — 0.3 mi away
- Restore Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Bethany United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Morrow United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Hope United Methodist Church — 2.1 mi away
- Methodist Church — 5.9 mi away in Albion, IA