Portage First United Methodist Church
Portage First United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church in Portage, IN 46368. It is one of 39 churches in Portage.
Portage, IN, 46368Website: http://www.portageumc.org/
Portage 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.
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The community around Portage First United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand 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.
- Child Poverty: 41.3% (26.9–55.7%)
- Obesity: 43.4%
- Social Isolation: 33.0%
- Depression: 24.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.4%
- Poverty Rate: 17.9% (8.9–26.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 17.8%
- Diabetes: 13.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.1%
- Unemployment: 7.2% (3.0–11.5%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Portage city is served by 15 churches — about one congregation for every 2,542 residents.
Churches near Portage First United Methodist Church
- Faith Tabernacle Pentecostal Center of God Church — 0.1 mi away
- Portage Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witness Church — 1 mi away in Valparaiso, IN
- St Peter Lutheran Church — 1 mi away
- Crocker Bible Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away in Chesterton, IN
- City Point Church — 1.1 mi away
- Portage Christadelphians — 1.2 mi away
- Crocker Bible Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away in Chesterton, IN
- Greater Grace Church — 1.7 mi away in Valparaiso, IN
- Hope Church — 1.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Wheeler United Methodist Church — 4.7 mi away
- Chesterton United Methodist Church — 5.1 mi away in Chesterton, IN
- Hobart Trinity United Methodist Church — 5.3 mi away in Hobart, IN
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 5.5 mi away in Lake Station, IN
- First United Methodist Church — 6.4 mi away in Hobart, IN