First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Baton Rouge, LA 70802. It is one of 572 churches in Baton Rouge, and one of 15 Methodist congregations in the city.
Baton Rouge, LA, 70802Service times
- Sunday 8:30am
Website: http://www.firstmethodist.org/
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.
Ministries at First United Methodist Church
- Mobile Breakfast Service
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Latest from First United Methodist Church of Baton Rouge's YouTube channel: September 13, 2026 | Sanctuary Worship | 11:00 AM (all videos).
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. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly a quarter of adults are worried about keeping the housing they have. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 32.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.4%
- Obesity: 41.7%
- Social Isolation: 39.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.6%
- Poverty Rate: 29.9% (17.5–42.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.1%
- Diabetes: 17.2%
- Depression: 25.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Baton Rouge city is served by 212 churches — about one congregation for every 1,006 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Gethsemane Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Zion First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- The Grace House Church — 0.2 mi away
- Area Offices United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church BR — 0.3 mi away
- New Salem Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Deliverance Temple — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Neely United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Scotts United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away in Port Allen, LA
- Faith African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 1.5 mi away
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