First United Methodist Church

First United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 73 Valley River Avenue in Murphy, NC 28906. It is one of 84 churches in Murphy.

Our mission is to be a community transformed by God’s grace, sent to love and serve like Jesus.

73 Valley River Avenue, Murphy, NC, 28906

Service times

  • Thursday 11:30am · in Fellowship Hall

Phone: (214) 675-1490 · Website: http://murphyfirstumc.org/

First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,375 congregations of the Methodist family gather across North Carolina — 25,985 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

In the few miles around this church, about 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance. Nearly a quarter of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.

  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.0% (12.1–27.9%)
  • Social Isolation: 29.8%
  • Depression: 25.3%
  • Diabetes: 13.9%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

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