First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Franklin, NE 68939. It is one of 6 churches in Franklin.
Franklin, NE, 68939First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 354 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Nebraska — 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
It takes 12.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of adults say they are socially isolated. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Diabetes: 15.3%
- Obesity: 39.9%
- Social Isolation: 29.0%
- Child Poverty: 23.2% (13.1–33.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Grace Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Congregational United Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Franklin Missionary Church — 0.2 mi away
- Christian Fellowship Evangelical Free Church — 0.4 mi away
- Sacred Heart Catholic Church — 4.3 mi away in Bloomington, NE
- Zion Church — 7.6 mi away
- Spring Valley Church — 9.7 mi away in Riverton, NE
- First Congregational Church, U.C.C. — 9.9 mi away
- Saint Mary Catholic Church — 9.9 mi away in Naponee, NE
More Methodist churches nearby
- United Methodist Church — 14.1 mi away in Republican City, NE
- Huntley Methodist Church — 19.5 mi away in Huntley, NE
- Free Methodist Church — 21.3 mi away in Alma, NE
- United Methodist Church — 21.5 mi away in Alma, NE
- Wilcox Community Church — 21.9 mi away in Wilcox, NE