First United Methodist Church of Sylva
First United Methodist Church of Sylva is a Methodist church in Sylva, NC 28779. It is one of 45 churches in Sylva, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
Part of Main Street Sylva Association
Sylva, NC, 28779First United Methodist Church of Sylva 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 of Sylva
In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About 1 in 7 the people here live without health insurance, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 32.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.1% (9.5–22.6%)
- Obesity: 36.1%
- Depression: 27.0%
- Child Poverty: 26.8% (10.3–43.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.8%
- Poverty Rate: 19.9% (12.2–27.6%)
- Food Insecurity: 15.1%
- Diabetes: 13.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First United Methodist Church of Sylva
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- St. John's Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Lifeway Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Redeemer Church, PCA — 0.3 mi away
- St. Mary's Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Destiny Church Wnc — 0.5 mi away
- The Summit Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- East Sylva Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Webster Methodist Church — 2 mi away
- Love Chapel — 2.1 mi away
- Cullowhee United Methodist Church — 5 mi away in Cullowhee, NC
- Cherokee United Methodist Church — 7.1 mi away in Cherokee, NC
- Whittier Church of God — 8.7 mi away in Whittier, NC
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