First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 190 East Franklin Boulevard in Gastonia, NC 28052. It is one of 209 churches in Gastonia, and one of 3 United Methodist congregations in the city.
190 East Franklin Boulevard, Gastonia, NC, 28052Website: http://fumcgastonia.org/
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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Latest from First United Methodist Church of Gastonia's YouTube channel: 10:30a | Combined Summer Worship (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. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 25.5%
- Obesity: 41.1%
- Social Isolation: 35.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.9%
- Diabetes: 15.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.3%
- Depression: 24.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.9%
- Poverty Rate: 17.5% (9.8–25.3%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.2%
- Unemployment: 6.8% (0.8–14.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Gastonia city is served by 22 churches — about one congregation for every 3,942 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Solid Rock Fellowship — 0.1 mi away
- 162 East — 0.1 mi away
- Salvation Army — 0.1 mi away
- Mcadenville Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- St Stephens AME Zion Church — 0.2 mi away
- St Mark's Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Life & Favor Christian Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Mt Calvary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Nueva vida Gastonia — 0.4 mi away
- St Paul Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- St Stephens AME Zion Church — 0.2 mi away
- Covenant United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Myers Memorial United Methodist — 1.6 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 3.6 mi away in Dallas, NC
- Maylo United Methodist Church — 3.9 mi away in Ranlo, NC
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