First United Methodist Church

First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 219 East 4th Street in Bloomington, IN 47408. It is one of 135 churches in Bloomington, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.

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219 East 4th Street, Bloomington, IN, 47408

Service times

  • Sunday 9:30am · First include traditional Classic Worship service

Phone: (812) 332-6396 · Website: https://www.fumcb.org/

First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 639 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Indiana — 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

  • East African Ministry
  • Children
  • Families
  • Moms at First
  • Jubilee | College & Young Adults
  • United Women in Faith
  • Outreach

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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 2,300 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: 64.9%
  • Social Isolation: 42.8%
  • Depression: 32.8%
  • Food Insecurity: 28.7%
  • Transportation Barriers: 17.9%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.4%
  • Unemployment: 10.3% (6.2–14.3%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.3%
  • Housing Insecurity: 16.8%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Bloomington city is served by 31 churches — about one congregation for every 2,319 residents.

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