First Methodist Church
First Methodist Church is a Methodist church in El Dorado, KS 67042. It is one of 36 churches in El Dorado, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
El Dorado, KS, 67042First Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 349 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Kansas — 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 Methodist Church
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 the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 45.1%
- Social Isolation: 33.3%
- Poverty Rate: 28.0% (16.2–39.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.3%
- Food Insecurity: 21.4%
- Diabetes: 15.0%
- Depression: 24.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
El Dorado city is served by 23 churches — about one congregation for every 366 residents.
Churches near First Methodist Church
- First United Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church of El Dorado — 0.1 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of the Nazarene — 0.1 mi away
- St John the Evangelist's Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Johns Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Feast of Life Church of God — 0.2 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 10.1 mi away in Augusta, KS
- Andover United Methodist Church — 17 mi away in Andover, KS
- Furley United Methodist Church — 19.5 mi away in Valley Center, KS
- Furley United Methodist Church — 19.9 mi away in Valley Center, KS