First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church in Independence, MO 64050. It is one of 164 churches in Independence, and one of 4 United Methodist congregations in the city.
Independence, MO, 64050First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 428 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Missouri — 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 describe their own health as fair or poor. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.4%
- Obesity: 41.4%
- Social Isolation: 33.0%
- Depression: 28.4%
- Food Insecurity: 23.9%
- Diabetes: 16.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.2%
- Unemployment: 10.9% (2.9–19.1%)
- Poverty Rate: 20.4% (12.3–28.5%)
- Housing Insecurity: 19.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.8% (6.5–17.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Independence city is served by 69 churches — about one congregation for every 1,768 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- One Way Ministries Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of Jesus Christ Zion's Branch — 0.1 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Community of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- The Remnant Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints — 0.2 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Mary's Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Northern Boulevard United Methodist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Sugar Creek United Methodist Church — 1.9 mi away in Sugar Creek, MO
- Glenwood Park United Methodist — 2.3 mi away
- Mount Washington United Methodist Church — 2.5 mi away
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