First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 787-6460 Find Us 275 W Michigan Ave in Jackson, MI 49201. It is one of 117 churches in Jackson, and one of 3 United Methodist congregations in the city.
As part of the United Methodist Church, we seek to live out our faith by following Christ’s call to Love Boldly, Serve Joyfully, and Lead Courageously.
At Jackson First United Methodist Church, we believe church is more than a place you attend—it’s a community where you belong.
787-6460 Find Us 275 W Michigan Ave, Jackson, MI, 49201Service times
- Sunday 10:30am
Phone: (517) 787-6460 · Website: http://www.firstumcjackson.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.
Ministries at First United Methodist Church
- Outreach Ministries
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Latest from Jackson First United Methodist Church | Michigan's YouTube channel: Jackson First UMC - Homecoming Sunday Worship | September 13, 2026 (all videos).
The community around First United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 50.5%
- Food Insecurity: 39.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.7%
- Poverty Rate: 36.6% (26.1–47.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 26.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.3%
- Diabetes: 19.2%
- Social Isolation: 36.3%
- Depression: 30.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.2%
- Unemployment: 8.1% (2.2–14.0%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Jackson city is served by 11 churches — about one congregation for every 2,856 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- First Congregational Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- St. Paul's Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- St. Mary Star of the Sea — 0.3 mi away
- Found Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Zion Church of Deliverance — 0.4 mi away
- Community A M E Church — 0.5 mi away
- St. John's United Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- First Presbyterian — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Found Church — 0.3 mi away
- Community A M E Church — 0.5 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Jackson Free Methodist Church — 3.6 mi away in Vandercook Lake, MI
- JFM Church — 3.6 mi away