First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 1700 Mitch Daniels Blvd. in West Lafayette, IN 47906. It is one of 47 churches in West Lafayette.
At First United Methodist Church West Lafayette, we embrace and celebrate the complexities of our faith, our world, and each other. Together we pursue knowledge and understanding in our journey as Christians. We strive to make the world a better place through service and social action. And, we nature each other’s true selves as we collectively build a community of inclusive Christianity.
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1700 Mitch Daniels Blvd., West Lafayette, IN, 47906Service times
- Sunday 11am · School during
Phone: (765) 743-1285 · Website: http://fumcwl.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.
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The community around First United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, 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 adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.
- Social Isolation: 43.2%
- Poverty Rate: 33.2% (22.4–43.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 26.2%
- Depression: 31.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
West Lafayette city is served by 20 churches — about one congregation for every 2,548 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Salt and Light Christian Fellowship at Purdue — 0.9 mi away
- Baptist Student Foundation — 1 mi away
- Purdue Christian Campus House — 1 mi away
- Purdue Cm — 1 mi away
- 507 Ministry — 1 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 1 mi away
- St. Thomas Aquinas — 1.2 mi away
- Wesley Foundation — 1.3 mi away
- Greater Lafayette Chinese Alliance Church — 1.3 mi away
- Chapel of the Good Shepherd — 1.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 2.4 mi away in Lafayette, IN
- Bethel AME Church — 2.6 mi away in Lafayette, IN
- Brown Street United Methodist Church — 2.7 mi away in Lafayette, IN
- Weaver Chapel — 2.8 mi away in Wabash Township, IN
- Grace United Methodist Church — 3.5 mi away in Lafayette, IN
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