First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Independence, LA 70443. It is one of 31 churches in Independence, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
Independence, LA, 70443Shares a ministry location with First Baptist Church.
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
In the few miles around this church, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 27.3%
- Obesity: 44.9%
- Social Isolation: 39.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.7%
- Child Poverty: 30.3% (13.8–47.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 20.6%
- Diabetes: 16.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.0%
- Depression: 25.8%
- Poverty Rate: 20.8% (11.8–29.9%)
- Transportation Barriers: 13.7%
- Unemployment: 7.9% (1.9–14.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- First Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Mater Dolorosa Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- COY Independence — 0.1 mi away
- Martien Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Paul Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Zion Travelers Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First United Pentecostal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Independence United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- San Expedito Church — 1 mi away
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Martien Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Independence United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Butlers African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 5.9 mi away in Amite City, LA
- Loranger United Methodist Church — 6.1 mi away in Loranger, LA
- First Southern Methodist Church — 6.3 mi away in Amite City, LA
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