First Methodist Church of Lovington
First Methodist Church of Lovington is a United Methodist church at 407 North Main Street in Lovington, NM 88260. It is one of 32 churches in Lovington.
First, we make an effort to help those who are looking to belong. We step out of our comfort zone and invite someone to church. Let's share the love this church has for each other with the rest of the community.Second, we take the time to pastor those we reach. We tell them of the great news. We pray with those who we don't know. We love unconditionally, just as God loves us, sin and all. We are not here to judge others because we do not want to be judged.Third, we take the time to teach. Sunday school is essential for all ages, and maybe we can sit in and teach a children's Sunday school clas
407 North Main Street, Lovington, NM, 88260Service times
- Sunday 10:50am
Phone: (575) 396-3687 · Website: http://lovingtonfirst.org
First Methodist Church of Lovington 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 of Lovington
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of working-age adults live without health insurance. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 33.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 26.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.9%
- Social Isolation: 37.6%
- Poverty Rate: 25.5% (13.2–37.7%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.2% (9.6–22.8%)
- Obesity: 40.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.9%
- Child Poverty: 24.9% (7.6–42.2%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.3%
- Diabetes: 14.3%
- Unemployment: 6.4% (0.6–12.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Lovington city is served by 18 churches — about one congregation for every 474 residents.
Churches near First Methodist Church of Lovington
- Príncipe de Paz Apostolic Assembly — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Primera Iglesia Bautista — 0.3 mi away
- Spanish Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church of the Nazarene — 0.4 mi away
- Victory Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First Assembly of God (Lovington) — 1.5 mi away
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