First Methodist Church
First Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Dexter, NM 88230. It is one of 11 churches in Dexter.
Dexter, NM, 88230First Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 105 congregations of the Methodist family gather across New Mexico — 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 Methodist Church
It takes 6.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 33.0%
- Poverty Rate: 31.6% (21.5–41.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 25.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.3%
- Obesity: 41.9%
- Social Isolation: 36.9%
- Child Poverty: 36.3% (22.8–49.8%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.9%
- Depression: 24.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.5%
- Diabetes: 13.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Methodist Church
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Dexter United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Westside Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Primera Iglesia Bautista — 0.1 mi away
- Eastside Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Midway Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Immaculate Conception Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 6.1 mi away in Hagerman, NM
More Methodist churches nearby
- Dexter United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 6.1 mi away in Hagerman, NM
- Vanguard Reformed Church of Roswell — 15.6 mi away in Roswell, NM
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 15.7 mi away in Roswell, NM
- First United Methodist Church — 16.4 mi away in Roswell, NM