First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 40 South Main Street in Brewer, ME 04412. It is one of 14 churches in Brewer.
40 South Main Street, Brewer, ME, 04412First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 118 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Maine — 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 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. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Obesity: 41.8%
- Social Isolation: 36.3%
- Depression: 31.5%
- Poverty Rate: 26.5% (18.1–34.9%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.0%
- Child Poverty: 24.3% (9.1–43.8%)
- Food Insecurity: 18.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.
Brewer city is served by 9 churches — about one congregation for every 1,070 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- First Congregational Church of Brewer — 0.1 mi away
- Illuminate Church — 0.2 mi away
- Fellowship Gym — 0.2 mi away in Bangor, ME
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Patricks Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Union Street Brick Church — 0.5 mi away in Bangor, ME
- Columbia Street Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away in Bangor, ME
- All Souls Congregational Church — 0.6 mi away in Bangor, ME
- Saint George Greek Orthodox Church — 0.6 mi away in Bangor, ME
- Hammond Street Congregational Church — 0.6 mi away in Bangor, ME
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church of Bangor — 2.1 mi away in Bangor, ME
- North Brewer-Eddington Methodist Church — 3.8 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 5.2 mi away in Orrington, ME
- Hampden Highlands United Methodist Church — 5.8 mi away in Hampden, ME
- Orono United Methodist Church — 7.8 mi away in Orono, ME