First United Methodist Harris Activity Center
First United Methodist Harris Activity Center is a Methodist church at 530 Poyntz Avenue in Manhattan, KS 66502. It is one of 86 churches in Manhattan, and one of 3 Methodist congregations in the city.
530 Poyntz Avenue, Manhattan, KS, 66502First United Methodist Harris Activity Center 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 Harris Activity Center
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than 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.
- Poverty Rate: 35.1% (25.7–44.6%)
- Social Isolation: 36.1%
- Depression: 25.4%
- Food Insecurity: 19.9% (15.2–25.5%)
- Housing Insecurity: 15.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.0%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Manhattan city is served by 39 churches — about one congregation for every 969 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Harris Activity Center
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- First United Methodist Church — 0 mi away
- St. Paul's Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Congregational United Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Mosaic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Remnant Nation — 0.1 mi away
- The Church Of Swole — 0.2 mi away
- Seven Dolors Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- The Well — 0.2 mi away
- Christian Disciples Fellowship Church — 0.2 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Methodist Education Center — 0 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0 mi away
- Manhattan Free Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- K-State Wesley — 1.5 mi away
- Blue Valley Memorial United Methodist Church — 2.2 mi away