First United Methodist Church

First United Methodist Church is a church at 341 East Main Street in Forest City, NC 28043. It is one of 58 churches in Forest City.

341 East Main Street, Forest City, NC, 28043

First 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 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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.

  • Child Poverty: 41.7% (26.4–56.9%)
  • Poverty Rate: 33.2% (24.2–42.2%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.7%
  • Food Insecurity: 29.2%
  • Obesity: 43.7%
  • Social Isolation: 34.3%
  • Depression: 28.0%
  • Housing Insecurity: 20.2%
  • Diabetes: 17.5%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.6%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.5%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.0% (9.3–20.7%)
  • Transportation Barriers: 14.9%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Forest City town is served by 11 churches — about one congregation for every 424 residents.

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