First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Griffith, IN 46319. It is one of 21 churches in Griffith, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
Griffith, IN, 46319First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 618 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Indiana — 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 a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 36.5%
- Social Isolation: 30.5%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Griffith town is served by 16 churches — about one congregation for every 1,006 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Griffith Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Griffith Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Timothy's Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- True Light Fellowship Church — 0.4 mi away
- Reed's Temple Church of God — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Mary Church — 0.5 mi away
- Free Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.7 mi away
- Griffith Church of God — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Free Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Living Waters Free Methodist Church — 3 mi away in Gary, IN
- Ridge United Methodist Church — 3.8 mi away in Munster, IN
- Woodmar United Methodist Church — 4 mi away in Hammond, IN
- Carter Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 4.6 mi away in Gary, IN