First United Methodist Church

First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Martins Ferry, OH 43935. It is one of 16 churches in Martins Ferry.

Martins Ferry, OH, 43935

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.

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The community around First United Methodist Church

Within about a mile of this church, about 1 in 5 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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: 20.7% (6.2–35.2%)
  • Obesity: 44.0%
  • Child Poverty: 39.7% (22.9–56.6%)
  • Social Isolation: 34.6%
  • Depression: 28.4%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.6%
  • Poverty Rate: 25.9% (14.5–37.3%)
  • Diabetes: 17.0%
  • Food Insecurity: 18.7%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.3%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Martins Ferry city is served by 11 churches — about one congregation for every 308 residents.

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