First United Methodist Church of Buffalo

First United Methodist Church of Buffalo is a Methodist church at 312 Baynes Street in Buffalo, NY 14213. It is one of 379 churches in Buffalo, and one of 3 Methodist congregations in the city.

312 Baynes Street, Buffalo, NY, 14213

Website: http://www.firstumcbuffalo.org/

First United Methodist Church of Buffalo is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 943 congregations of the Methodist family gather across New York — 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 Buffalo

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.

  • Child Poverty: 48.1% (29.4–66.7%)
  • Social Isolation: 32.1%
  • Poverty Rate: 22.2% (12.3–32.1%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Buffalo city is served by 65 churches — about one congregation for every 4,256 residents.

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