First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a church at 227 Fulton Street East in Grand Rapids, MI 49503. It is one of 418 churches in Grand Rapids.
227 Fulton Street East, Grand Rapids, MI, 49503Website: http://www.grandrapidsfumc.org/
First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 846 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Michigan — 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 a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 the people here live below the poverty line. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of adults here carry depression. That is 2,300 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Poverty Rate: 34.4% (25.4–43.4%)
- Social Isolation: 35.2%
- Depression: 31.7%
- Food Insecurity: 21.4%
- Obesity: 37.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.1%
- Unemployment: 6.1% (2.1–10.0%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Grand Rapids city is served by 313 churches — about one congregation for every 628 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- First Place — 0 mi away
- Park Congregational Church — 0.1 mi away
- Westminster Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- United Campus Christian Fellowship — 0.1 mi away
- Cornerstone Church - Heritage Hill Campus — 0.2 mi away
- Fountain Street Church — 0.2 mi away
- Central Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
- St. Mark's Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- City Chapel — 0.3 mi away
- Central Reformed Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First Community A.M.E. Church — 0.9 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- St. Luke A.M.E. Zion Church — 1.2 mi away
- Plainfield United Methodist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Northlawn United Methodist Church — 3.4 mi away