First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Bastrop, LA 71220. It is one of 98 churches in Bastrop, and one of 3 Methodist congregations in the city.
reaching people for Christ
We enjoy a wonderful fellowship, vibrant with love and joy, and we would love to see you in worship!
Bastrop, LA, 71220Service times
Sunday School | 9:45am (as listed)
Phone: (318) 281-2874
First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 432 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Louisiana — 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 about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,200 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: 54.0% (36.8–71.2%)
- Obesity: 51.1%
- Food Insecurity: 48.4%
- Social Isolation: 42.4%
- Poverty Rate: 42.2% (29.7–54.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 41.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 34.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 29.0%
- Diabetes: 24.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 24.1%
- Unemployment: 13.4% (6.4–20.4%)
- Depression: 26.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.4%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Bastrop city is served by 29 churches — about one congregation for every 340 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Christ Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mt Olive Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Life Blood Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- ALPHA and OMEGA Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- First Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- Magnolia Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Joseph Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Second Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Mount Olive United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Marys Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away
- St Andrew's Episcopal Church — 7.2 mi away in Mer Rouge, LA
- Saint Andrews Methodist Church — 10.1 mi away in Sterlington, LA
- Foundry — 10.2 mi away in Sterlington, LA