First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 617 South Main Street in Carthage, MO 64836. It is one of 60 churches in Carthage.
617 South Main Street, Carthage, MO, 64836Phone: (417) 358-2577 · Website: https://www.umccarthage.com/
First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 418 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Missouri — 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.
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Latest from First United Methodist Church of Carthage Missouri's YouTube channel: 08.02.2026 Late Morning Worship (all videos).
The community around First United Methodist Church
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. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,100 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: 46.4% (31.5–61.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.0%
- Poverty Rate: 30.4% (17.6–43.2%)
- Food Insecurity: 25.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.7% (15.3–26.0%)
- Obesity: 43.3%
- Social Isolation: 33.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.9%
- Diabetes: 15.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.4%
- Depression: 25.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.0%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Carthage city is served by 13 churches — about one congregation for every 1,334 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Cornerstone Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- The Bridge A Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church Carthage — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Cristiana Pentecostés — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Ann’s Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Carthage Family Worship Center — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Bethel United Methodist Church — 4 mi away
- Carterville United Methodist Church — 7.5 mi away in Carterville, MO
- Central Webb City — 8.7 mi away in Webb City, MO
- Central United Methodist Church — 8.7 mi away in Webb City, MO
- Joplin First Church — 12.9 mi away in Joplin, MO