First United Methodist Church

First United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 305 West 7th Street in Hays, KS 67601. It is one of 31 churches in Hays.

305 West 7th Street, Hays, KS, 67601

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 — 25,985 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 about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 the people here live below the poverty line. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 5 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.

  • Poverty Rate: 33.5% (23.3–43.8%)
  • Social Isolation: 35.3%
  • Food Insecurity: 20.5%
  • Obesity: 39.6%
  • Depression: 24.5%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.1%
  • Housing Insecurity: 15.4%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.7%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Hays city is served by 20 churches — about one congregation for every 682 residents.

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