First Street United Methodist Church
First Street United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in New Orleans, LA 70113. It is one of 824 churches in New Orleans, and one of 44 Methodist congregations in the city.
New Orleans, LA, 70113First Street 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 Street United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Social Isolation: 40.8%
- Food Insecurity: 29.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.0%
- Depression: 28.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 22.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.2% (6.7–25.7%)
- Diabetes: 15.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
New Orleans city is served by 579 churches — about one congregation for every 657 residents.
Churches near First Street United Methodist Church
- Pressing Onward Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Second New Light Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Bethel Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Spirit of Liberty Missionary Baptist Church - New Orleans — 0.1 mi away
- Second Mount Carmel Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Phillipian Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Second King Solomon Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Paul Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Third Rose of Sharon Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Peoples United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Payne Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Union Bethel AME Church — 0.6 mi away
- Felicity Street Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
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