First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Gering, NE 69341. It is one of 21 churches in Gering.
Gering, NE, 69341First 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
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Obesity: 39.0%
- Social Isolation: 31.5%
- Food Insecurity: 15.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.1% (7.4–14.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Gering city is served by 13 churches — about one congregation for every 764 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Hope Church — 0.1 mi away
- Living Stones Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Oregon Trail Church of the Nazarene — 0.1 mi away
- Gering Zion Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Bible Missionary Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bluffview Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Center Cross Community Church — 0.4 mi away
- Gering Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Declaration Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- The Vine United Methodist Church — 3 mi away in Scottsbluff, NE
- First United Methodist Church — 3 mi away in Scottsbluff, NE
- Mitchell United Methodist Church — 11.4 mi away in Mitchell, NE
- Methodist Church — 16.8 mi away in Morrill, NE
- United Methodist Church — 17.9 mi away in Bayard, NE