First United Methodist Church

First United Methodist Church is a church at 204 6th Avenue West in Hendersonville, NC 28792. It is one of 107 churches in Hendersonville.

204 6th Avenue West, Hendersonville, NC, 28792

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 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. About 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance, and nearly a quarter of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.

  • Child Poverty: 52.3%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.4% (11.0–25.9%)
  • Social Isolation: 29.9%
  • Depression: 24.9%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.3%
  • Poverty Rate: 20.8% (11.5–30.2%)
  • Food Insecurity: 16.8%
  • Diabetes: 13.9%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Hendersonville city is served by 13 churches — about one congregation for every 1,073 residents.

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