First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 312 Third St. in Elyria, OH 44035. It is one of 99 churches in Elyria, and one of 3 Methodist congregations in the city.
312 Third St., Elyria, OH, 44035Service times
- Sunday 9:30am–10:30am · MORNINGS -
Phone: (833) 756-0325 · Website: http://www.elyriafirstumc.org/
Shares a ministry location with Pulse Elyria.
First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,576 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Ohio — 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
- Breakfast Ministry
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Latest from Elyria First United Methodist Church's YouTube channel: Worship Service August 2, 2026 (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. More than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,100 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.
- Poverty Rate: 38.4% (26.9–49.9%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.1%
- Food Insecurity: 30.0%
- Diabetes: 23.3%
- Unemployment: 18.3% (9.1–27.6%)
- Obesity: 43.4%
- Social Isolation: 35.2%
- Depression: 27.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.4%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Elyria city is served by 33 churches — about one congregation for every 1,385 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Pulse Elyria — 0 mi away
- Saint Andrews Episcopal Church — 0 mi away
- First Congregational Church — 0.1 mi away
- St Mary Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Marys Roman Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 0.2 mi away
- First United Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- venue church — 0.2 mi away
- Spread the Word Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Salvation Army — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Asbury United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Jones Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1 mi away
- LaPorte United Methodist Church — 3.1 mi away
- Fields United Methodist Church — 6 mi away in North Ridgeville, OH
- Amherst Park Avenue United Methodist Church — 6.4 mi away in Amherst, OH