Topeka First United Methodist Church
Topeka First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 3100 SW Gage Blvd., Topeka, KS, 66614 in Topeka, KS 66603. It is one of 218 churches in Topeka, and one of 14 Methodist congregations in the city.
3100 SW Gage Blvd., Topeka, KS, 66614, Topeka, KS, 66603Service times
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 9am
Phone: (785) 233-8100 · Website: https://www.forthegoodofthecity.org/
Topeka 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 Topeka First United Methodist Church
- Children's Ministry
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Upcoming events at Topeka First United Methodist Church
- Sun, Nov 8 · 8:15 AM: Worship — Klasse Chapel
- Sun, Nov 8 · 8:45 AM: Youth Sunday Mornings
- Sun, Nov 8 · 9:30 AM: Sunday Morning Kids — Room 216 & 213
- Sun, Nov 8 · 9:30 AM: Wesley Weds — L28
- Sun, Nov 8 · 10:45 AM: Women Seeking Wisdom — Room 104
From Topeka First United Methodist Church's public calendar (https://www.forthegoodofthecity.org/). Times are the church's local time.
Watch
Latest from Topeka First UMC's YouTube channel: 11-01-2026: “The Legacy of the Saints" - 10:45 Traditional service (all videos).
The community around Topeka 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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 46.2%
- Food Insecurity: 28.9%
- Child Poverty: 39.0% (22.4–55.7%)
- Social Isolation: 34.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.0%
- Poverty Rate: 23.9% (15.0–32.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 21.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.6% (10.1–25.2%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.5%
- Diabetes: 16.0%
- Depression: 24.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Topeka city is served by 131 churches — about one congregation for every 923 residents.
Churches near Topeka First United Methodist Church
- Saint John African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Assumption Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Harvest Family Fellowship — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Topeka Storm Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Grace Episcopal Cathedral — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Joseph Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bethany Place — 0.4 mi away
- Wonderful Works Deliverance Center COGIC — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint John African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Asbury Mount Olive United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Walnut Grove Methodist Episcopal Church — 1 mi away
- Greater Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.1 mi away
- Saint Mark African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.1 mi away