First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 2301 15th Street in Gulfport, MS 39501. It is one of 161 churches in Gulfport, and one of 4 Methodist congregations in the city.
FUMC is a church where everyone is welcomed. It is a caring church with many service opportunities to reach out and make a difference in our community.
2301 15th Street, Gulfport, MS, 39501Service times
- Sunday 9am · Morning Small GroupsConver ion Corner
Phone: (228) 863-0047 · Website: http://www.fumc-gulfport.org/
First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 620 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Mississippi — 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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Latest from Gulfport First United Methodist Church's YouTube channel: September 13, 2026 Worship: Violence in the Bible (all videos).
The community around First United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. Nearly a quarter of the people here live without health insurance, and about 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 29.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 23.4% (15.3–31.5%)
- Unemployment: 13.3% (2.9–23.9%)
- Obesity: 41.0%
- Social Isolation: 38.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.9%
- Poverty Rate: 23.1% (11.3–34.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 21.1%
- Diabetes: 17.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.4%
- Child Poverty: 29.1% (13.0–46.3%)
- Transportation Barriers: 15.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Gulfport city is served by 38 churches — about one congregation for every 1,727 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint James Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mercy Seat Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- St. Peter's by-the-Sea Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.3 mi away
- Bible Way Baptist Church Gulfport, MS — 0.3 mi away
- Word of Faith Christian — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Matthew Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Unity Church of Gulfport — 0.6 mi away
- Mount Bethel Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Burton Memorial Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Guinn Memorial Methodist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Mt Pleasant United Methodist Church — 3.8 mi away
- Trinity Methodist Church — 3.9 mi away
- Long Beach First United Methodist Church — 4 mi away in Long Beach, MS
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