First United Methodist Church

First United Methodist Church is a church at 200 N King St in Morganton, NC 28655-3437. It is one of 160 churches in Morganton.

200 N King St, Morganton, NC, 28655-3437

Phone: +18284370921 · Website: https://www.firstumcmorganton.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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The community around First United Methodist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter 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 households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.

  • Child Poverty: 64.0%
  • Social Isolation: 33.6%
  • Poverty Rate: 28.6% (16.8–40.5%)
  • Food Insecurity: 20.5%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.9% (11.6–24.1%)
  • Obesity: 38.1%
  • Depression: 25.6%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.4%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.0%
  • Housing Insecurity: 15.2%
  • Diabetes: 14.1%

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

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