First United Methodist Church (Highland Park, Michigan)
First United Methodist Church (Highland Park, Michigan) is a United Methodist church in Highland Park, MI. It is one of 26 churches in Highland Park.
Services in Spanish and Portuguese and Korean
Highland Park, MIPhone: (615) 742-5427 · Website: http://www.umc.org/
First United Methodist Church (Highland Park, Michigan) 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 (Highland Park, Michigan)
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 89.0%
- Obesity: 47.8%
- Food Insecurity: 42.5%
- Poverty Rate: 40.5% (26.3–54.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 31.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 27.0%
- Diabetes: 22.7%
- Social Isolation: 36.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.3%
- Unemployment: 8.7% (2.1–15.2%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
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- Berea Saint Paul's United Methodist Church of Highland Park — 0.7 mi away
- St. Luke Church — 1 mi away
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