First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 301 S National St in Fort Scott, KS 66701-1313. It is one of 14 churches in Fort Scott.
The mission of First UMC Fort Scott is: “to share the good news of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and to exemplify the love of God by knowing Christ, growing in Christ, serving Christ and sharing Christ”
Fort Scott's First UMC was founded in 1866 and has gathered at the corner of 3rd and National since 1906. We are a community of imperfect people seeking holiness together.
301 S National St, Fort Scott, KS, 66701-1313Service times
- Sunday 10:30am
Phone: (620) 223-1950 · Website: https://www.firstumcfortscott.org/
First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 352 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Kansas — 25,989 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.
Ministries at First United Methodist Church
- Feeding Families
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The community around First United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and 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 the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 36.8%
- Social Isolation: 31.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.2%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Grace Baptist Tabernacle — 0.5 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.5 mi away
- FLAG Church Fort Scott — 0.6 mi away
- Fort Scott First Church of God — 0.7 mi away
- Fort Scott Brethren Church — 1.1 mi away
- First Assembly of God — 1.2 mi away
- First Southern Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Community Christian Church — 1.5 mi away
- Seventh Day Adventist Church — 2.6 mi away
- Clarksburg Valley Chapel — 5.1 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- United Methodist Church — 18.4 mi away in Nevada, MO
- Arma United Methodist Church — 20.2 mi away in Arma, KS