Joplin First Church
Joplin First Church is a Methodist church at 501 West 4th Street in Joplin, MO 64801. It is one of 124 churches in Joplin.
To Make NEW Disciples of Jesus Christ for the Transformation of the World.
501 West 4th Street, Joplin, MO, 64801Service times
Sunday in August 10 am (as listed)
Website: https://www.joplinfirstchurch.org/
Joplin First 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 Joplin First 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 about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.
- Obesity: 45.4%
- Poverty Rate: 34.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.7%
- Food Insecurity: 28.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 22.7%
- Social Isolation: 35.9%
- Child Poverty: 34.8% (15.6–53.9%)
- Depression: 29.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 21.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.2%
- Diabetes: 15.4%
- Unemployment: 9.7% (4.2–15.2%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Joplin city is served by 20 churches — about one congregation for every 2,033 residents.
Churches near Joplin First Church
- Joplin First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Joplin Chapter DeMolay — 0.1 mi away
- Church of the Cross Joplin — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Traders Church — 0.2 mi away
- Traders Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Philip's Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- CCC Saturday Night Live — 0.3 mi away
- Central Christian Center — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Byers Avenue United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Central United Methodist Church — 4.9 mi away in Webb City, MO
- Central Webb City — 5 mi away in Webb City, MO
- Carterville United Methodist Church — 5.9 mi away in Carterville, MO
- The Well United Methodist Church — 6.7 mi away in Carl Junction, MO