First Methodist Church
First Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 402 North Aurora Street in Ithaca, NY 14850. It is one of 52 churches in Ithaca, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
402 North Aurora Street, Ithaca, NY, 14850Shares a ministry location with St. Paul's United Methodist Church.
First Methodist Church 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 Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, 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 say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,300 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.
- Social Isolation: 36.2%
- Poverty Rate: 26.6% (18.4–34.8%)
- Depression: 23.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Ithaca city is served by 17 churches — about one congregation for every 981 residents.
Churches near First Methodist Church
- St. Paul's United Methodist Church — 0 mi away
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Ithaca — 0.1 mi away
- Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Our Lord's Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint John's Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Biserica Ortodoxă Greacă „Sfânta Ecaterina” Ithaca NY — 0.3 mi away
- Church of the Immaculate Conception — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.6 mi away
- South Hill Church of the Nazarene — 0.8 mi away
- Caroline Valley Comm Church — 6.8 mi away in Caroline, NY
- Lansing United Methodist Church — 7.2 mi away in Lansing, NY
- Newfield United Methodist Church — 7.6 mi away in Newfield, NY