First United Methodist Church of Slidell
First United Methodist Church of Slidell is a Methodist church in Slidell, LA 70458. It is one of 84 churches in Slidell, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
Slidell, LA, 70458First United Methodist Church of Slidell 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 of Slidell
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 41.6%
- Social Isolation: 34.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.8%
- Food Insecurity: 23.7%
- Diabetes: 16.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.2% (6.2–24.1%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.4%
- Depression: 25.6%
- Child Poverty: 22.5% (11.3–36.7%)
- Poverty Rate: 21.8% (12.4–31.4%)
- Housing Insecurity: 17.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Slidell city is served by 6 churches — about one congregation for every 3,079 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church of Slidell
- First United Methodist Church of Slidell — 0.1 mi away
- Starlight Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- The Genesis Project Slidell — 0.2 mi away
- Camellia City Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mt Zion Hartzell — 0.3 mi away
- Christ Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mt Olive Ame Church — 0.4 mi away
- Lily of the Valley Church — 0.5 mi away
- Open Arms Ministries — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church of Slidell — 0.1 mi away
- Aldersgate — 2.2 mi away
- Hartzell — 3.7 mi away
- Pearl River Methodist Church — 7.4 mi away in Pearl River, LA
- St James AME — 17.6 mi away in Picayune, MS