First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 603 State Street in Schenectady, NY 12305. It is one of 112 churches in Schenectady, and one of 10 Methodist congregations in the city.
We are a reconciling congregation All persons are recipients of God’s love and grace; God intends the church to be a community which embodies love, grace and justice for all people as a sign of God’s covenant.
First UMC Schenectady is proud to be a thinking church. We believe in the integration of our minds into our faith.
Part of Reconciling Ministries Network
603 State Street, Schenectady, NY, 12305Service times
- Sunday 8:30am–9:30am · mornings to
- Sunday 10am · Morning Service
Phone: (518) 374-4404 · Website: https://fumcschenectady.org/blog/
First United 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.
Ministries at First United Methodist Church
- Community Breakfast
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Latest from First United Methodist Church of Schenectady's YouTube channel: 8/02/2026 FUMC Schenectady 10:00 Service (all videos).
The community around First United 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. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,400 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.
- Child Poverty: 54.2% (40.2–68.6%)
- Obesity: 45.3%
- Food Insecurity: 35.4%
- Poverty Rate: 31.8% (22.9–40.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 28.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.6%
- Unemployment: 12.4% (4.3–20.6%)
- Social Isolation: 37.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.9%
- Diabetes: 15.7%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Schenectady city is served by 64 churches — about one congregation for every 1,075 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Joseph Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Seed of Abraham — 0.1 mi away
- CityReach Church Schenectady — 0.2 mi away
- Saint George Greek Orthodox Church — 0.2 mi away
- Zion Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Dominion Grace Church — 0.2 mi away
- Refreshing Spring Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Duryee Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Christ Family Fellowship Church — 0.6 mi away
- Faith United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Grace Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Scotia United Methodist Church — 1.7 mi away in Scotia, NY
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