First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 2122 Myrtle St in Arcadia, LA 71001-3426. It is one of 21 churches in Arcadia.
Services in Spanish and Portuguese and Korean
2122 Myrtle St, Arcadia, LA, 71001-3426Phone: (318) 263-2860 · Website: http://www.umc.org
Shares a ministry location with First Methodist Church of Arcadia.
First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 449 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Louisiana — 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
In the few miles around this church, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand 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.
- Child Poverty: 62.3% (43.5–81.1%)
- Obesity: 50.3%
- Poverty Rate: 40.5% (29.6–51.3%)
- Food Insecurity: 40.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.1%
- Diabetes: 24.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.9%
- Social Isolation: 39.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.3%
- Depression: 25.1%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- First Methodist Church of Arcadia — 0 mi away
- New Beginnings Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- Bienville, Claiborne, & Jackson Parish CASA — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Arcadia — 0.1 mi away
- First Pentecostal Church of Arcadia — 0.3 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- New Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mt. Calvary Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away in Shreveport, LA
- New Hebron Baptist Church — 1 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Simsboro Grace Community Church — 8.3 mi away in Simsboro, LA
- Salem United Methodist Church — 9.7 mi away in Dubach, LA
- Tulip Methodist Church — 9.7 mi away in Homer, LA
- Antioch United Methodist Church — 10.7 mi away in Ruston, LA
- Lewis Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 12.2 mi away in Grambling, LA