First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Elizabeth City, NC 27909. It is one of 93 churches in Elizabeth City.
Elizabeth City, NC, 27909First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,294 congregations of the Methodist family gather across North Carolina — 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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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. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than 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 the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 29.4%
- Obesity: 44.6%
- Social Isolation: 36.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.1%
- Poverty Rate: 22.9% (12.6–33.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 22.1%
- Diabetes: 17.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.3%
- Depression: 24.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.6% (8.2–21.0%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.8%
- Unemployment: 7.6% (1.4–14.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Elizabeth City city is served by 27 churches — about one congregation for every 482 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Cann Memorial Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Lebanon Church — 0.2 mi away
- Christ Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Peter Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Corner Stone Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Forerunner Church — 0.3 mi away
- Olive Branch Missionary Church — 0.3 mi away
- Holy Trinity Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- City Road United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Camden United Methodist Church — 3.8 mi away in Camden, NC
- Newbegun United Methodist Church — 3.8 mi away
- Mount Herman United Methodist Church — 6.5 mi away
- Evangelical Church — 6.6 mi away
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