First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Great Bend, KS 67530. It is one of 46 churches in Great Bend, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
Great Bend, KS, 67530First United 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 United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, about 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance. 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 healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.8% (13.2–28.4%)
- Obesity: 41.6%
- Social Isolation: 33.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.5%
- Food Insecurity: 23.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.8%
- Poverty Rate: 16.1% (8.1–24.0%)
- Diabetes: 13.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Great Bend city is served by 26 churches — about one congregation for every 405 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Prairie Foursquare Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- River Of Life Foursquare Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- First Church of Christ Science — 0.2 mi away
- King Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Rose Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Dominican Sisters — 0.3 mi away
- Jehovah Witness Kingdom Hall — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- King Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 2.4 mi away
- First United Methodist Church of Hoisington — 10.4 mi away in Hoisington, KS
- Otis United Methodist Church — 19.4 mi away in Otis, KS
- United Methodist Church — 22.1 mi away in Larned, KS