First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 128 Park Street in Chelsea, MI 48118. It is one of 23 churches in Chelsea, and one of 2 United Methodist congregations in the city.
Welcome to Chelsea First UMCWe are a community of everyday people learning to love like Jesus—imperfect, curious, growing, and deeply committed to embodying grace.
Part of Michigan Conference
128 Park Street, Chelsea, MI, 48118Service times
- Wednesday 8am
Phone: (734) 475-8119 · Website: https://chelseaumc.org/
First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 819 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Michigan — 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.
Find First United Methodist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
Upcoming events at First United Methodist Church
- Wed, Aug 5 · 7 PM: Alanon
- Fri, Aug 7 · 12 PM: AA - Thy Not My Will
- Sun, Aug 9 · 10 AM: Summer Worship
- Sun, Aug 9 · 11:30 AM: Parables Worship
- Tue, Aug 11 · 12 PM: Material Girls
From First United Methodist Church's public calendar (https://chelseaumc.org/). Times are the church's local time.
Watch
Latest from Chelsea First United Methodist Church's YouTube channel: Why Am I Here? | 10AM | August 2, 2026 (all videos).
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. Nearly a quarter of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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: 27.7%
- Depression: 25.7%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Chelsea city is served by 6 churches — about one congregation for every 906 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Immanuel Bible Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Congregational Church of Chelsea — 0.1 mi away
- Main Street Church — 0.2 mi away
- Foundation Building Church — 0.6 mi away
- Hope Alive — 0.6 mi away
- Chelsea Christian Fellowship — 0.6 mi away
- Chelsea Church of the Nazarene — 0.7 mi away
- Chelsea First Assembly of God — 0.7 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.7 mi away
- Chelsea Michigan Ward — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Chelsea Church — 1.5 mi away
- New Harvest — 3.1 mi away in Dexter, MI
- Chelsea Free Methodist Church — 3.3 mi away in Dexter, MI
- North Lake United Methodist Church — 4.8 mi away
- Salem Grove United Methodist Church — 5.5 mi away in Grass Lake Township, MI