First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 217 S. Church Street in Salisbury, NC 28144. It is one of 178 churches in Salisbury, and one of 6 United Methodist congregations in the city.
Since 1783, First United Methodist Church has been a vibrant faith community in downtown Salisbury. Grounded in the Methodist tradition, we seek to follow Christ through worship, service, and shared life together.
Wheelchair accessible · Part of Western North Carolina Conference
217 S. Church Street, Salisbury, NC, 28144Service times
- Sunday 8:45am · School starts
Phone: (704) 636-3121 · Website: http://fumcsalisbury.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.
Ministries at First United Methodist Church
- Child Development Center
- Meals on Wheels
- Shelter Ministry
- Habitat for Humanity
- FUMC Preschool
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Latest from FUMC Salisbury's YouTube channel: The Tenth Sunday after Pentecost | August 2, 2026 (all videos).
The community around First United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Poverty Rate: 31.3% (18.2–44.5%)
- Food Insecurity: 27.5%
- Obesity: 43.2%
- Social Isolation: 34.3%
- Child Poverty: 30.6% (15.4–45.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 20.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.1% (9.8–22.5%)
- Diabetes: 15.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.3%
- Unemployment: 9.9% (4.5–15.4%)
- Depression: 24.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Salisbury city is served by 47 churches — about one congregation for every 539 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Pray North Carolina — 0.1 mi away
- Carolina Family Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Johns Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- First United Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Faith Assembly International Church & Ministry — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Lukes Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of the Sacred Heart — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Calvary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Soldiers Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.3 mi away
- Park Avenue Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Coburn Memorial Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Southern City Tabernacle African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 1.7 mi away in East Spencer, NC
- Spencer Methodist Protestant Church — 2.4 mi away in Spencer, NC
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