First United Methodist Church of North Vernon
First United Methodist Church of North Vernon is a United Methodist church at 240 West Poplar Street in North Vernon, IN 47265. It is one of 39 churches in North Vernon.
240 West Poplar Street, North Vernon, IN, 47265Website: http://www.umc.org
First United Methodist Church of North Vernon 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 of North Vernon
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: 41.7%
- Social Isolation: 33.3%
- Depression: 27.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.4%
- Poverty Rate: 16.3% (5.9–26.8%)
- Food Insecurity: 16.0%
- Diabetes: 14.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.3% (9.0–17.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
North Vernon city is served by 11 churches — about one congregation for every 236 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church of North Vernon
- Second United Methodist Church of North Vernon — 0.2 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Corinthian Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- North Vernon Weslyan Church — 0.3 mi away
- Lord's Chapel Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Christian Church, North Vernon — 0.4 mi away
- Chestnut Street Church — 0.4 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Mary's Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Christ Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Second United Methodist Church of North Vernon — 0.2 mi away
- Dupont United Methodist Church — 9.9 mi away in Dupont, IN
- Alert United Methodist Church — 10.6 mi away in Westport, IN
- Westport Methodist Church — 12.8 mi away in Westport, IN
- First United Methodist Church — 14 mi away in Seymour, IN
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