First Methodist Church
First Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Massillon, OH 44646. It is one of 82 churches in Massillon, and one of 5 Methodist congregations in the city.
Massillon, OH, 44646First 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 Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 45.6%
- Social Isolation: 36.9%
- Depression: 28.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.4%
- Food Insecurity: 22.0%
- Diabetes: 15.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.2% (6.4–20.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Massillon city is served by 36 churches — about one congregation for every 896 residents.
Churches near First Methodist Church
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 0 mi away
- Reachmark Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mt Calvary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Central Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint John Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Timothys Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Spiritualist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Rivertree Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Wesley Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- First Wesleyan Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Epworth Methodist Church — 2.6 mi away
- Team Jesus Church — 2.9 mi away in Jackson Twp, OH