First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 200 West High Street in Lexington, KY 40507. It is one of 286 churches in Lexington, and one of 6 Methodist congregations in the city.
200 West High Street, Lexington, KY, 40507Service times
- Sunday 8:30am
- Sunday 11am
Phone: +1 859 233 0545 · Website: http://downtown.1stumc.org/
First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around First United Methodist Church
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. More than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,400 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.
- Child Poverty: 87.9%
- Poverty Rate: 41.6%
- Depression: 29.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.5%
- Unemployment: 7.4% (2.8–12.1%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Lexington-Fayette urban county is served by 120 churches — about one congregation for every 2,677 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints — 0.1 mi away
- Political Pagans of The Bluegrass Persuasion — 0.2 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Christ Church Cathedral — 0.3 mi away
- Embrace Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Paul Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away in Lexington-Fayette, KY
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Maxwell Street Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away in Lexington-Fayette, KY
- Crossroads — 0.3 mi away
- Broadway Christian Church — 0.3 mi away in Lexington-Fayette, KY