First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 614 Randolph St. in Waterloo, IA 50702. It is one of 126 churches in Waterloo, and one of 7 Methodist congregations in the city.
Reaching out to the community to provide a place for spiritual growth through a caring, inviting environment.
Waterloo First is a community of faith that is committed to following Christ as we love God and our neighbor as ourselves.
614 Randolph St., Waterloo, IA, 50702Service times
- Sunday 9:30am · we gather
Phone: (319) 235-7088 · Website: https://www.waterloofirst.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.
Ministries at First United Methodist Church
- Children's Ministry
- Nursery
Find First United Methodist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around First United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,100 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: 47.2%
- Food Insecurity: 27.4%
- Social Isolation: 35.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.4%
- Poverty Rate: 24.7% (14.5–34.9%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.4% (8.1–22.7%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.0%
- Unemployment: 11.9% (3.4–20.5%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.8%
- Child Poverty: 26.5% (9.7–43.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 18.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.4%
- Diabetes: 13.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Waterloo city is served by 83 churches — about one congregation for every 813 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Christian Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Grace Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Christian Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Christ Temple Apostolic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Wesleyan Church — 0.2 mi away
- Waterloo Gospel Hall — 0.4 mi away
- Sacred Heart Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church — 0.4 mi away
- Waterloo Baptist Temple — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity American Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Jubilee United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Kimball Avenue United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Cedar Valley Free Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Payne Memorial Ame Church — 1.8 mi away
- Jubilee United Methodist Church — 1.9 mi away