First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 946 Vermont Street in Lawrence, KS 66044. It is one of 106 churches in Lawrence, and one of 4 United Methodist congregations in the city.
946 Vermont Street, Lawrence, KS, 66044Website: https://fumclawrence.org/
First 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 a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,100 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.
- Poverty Rate: 46.0%
- Social Isolation: 36.4%
- Depression: 31.4%
- Food Insecurity: 23.5% (17.0–30.6%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.6%
- Unemployment: 9.0% (5.1–12.9%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.9% (8.0–15.7%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Lawrence city is served by 68 churches — about one congregation for every 1,175 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Plymouth Congregational Church — 0.1 mi away
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Free City Church — 0.1 mi away
- Greenhouse Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Relevate Church — 0.1 mi away
- Salvation Army Church — 0.1 mi away
- Ninth Street Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Canterbury House — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Luke African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint Luke African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Centenary United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Lawrence Indian United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
- River City Church — 3.3 mi away
- First United Methodist Church West Campus — 5.6 mi away