First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 163 East Wheeling Street in Lancaster, OH 43130. It is one of 93 churches in Lancaster.
163 East Wheeling Street, Lancaster, OH, 43130Service times
- Wednesday 6:30pm
Phone: (740) 653-3330 · Website: https://love-first.org
First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,596 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Ohio — 25,985 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
- Local Missions
- Global Missions
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The community around First United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is 2,100 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.
- Unemployment: 12.8% (6.3–19.4%)
- Social Isolation: 34.9%
- Depression: 29.6%
- Obesity: 39.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.2%
- Poverty Rate: 20.2% (12.1–28.3%)
- Food Insecurity: 17.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.5% (5.7–21.3%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.5%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Lancaster city is served by 48 churches — about one congregation for every 733 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Emanuel Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Johns Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Peter Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Basilica of St. Mary of the Assumption — 0.2 mi away
- Mills Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Covenant Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- City of Life — 0.2 mi away
- First English Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- WorldFire Lancaster — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Mills Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Maple Street Evangelical United Brethren Church — 0.3 mi away
- Sixth Avenue Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Lancaster Church of the Brethren — 1.9 mi away
- Crossroads A Family Ministry Center of the First United Methodist Church — 2.1 mi away