First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 88 North 5th Street in Newark, OH 43055. It is one of 90 churches in Newark, and one of 9 Methodist congregations in the city.
AT FIRST CHURCH UNITED METHODIST WE EXIST TO MAKE NEW DISCIPLES OF JESUS CHRIST FOR THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE WORLD.
88 North 5th Street, Newark, OH, 43055Service times
- Sunday 9am · WORSHIP GATHERINGSTRADITIONAL
Phone: (740) 349-7020 · Website: http://www.firstchurchnewark.org/
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
- Service
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The community around First United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. 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 two thousand 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.
- Obesity: 43.9%
- Child Poverty: 39.8% (24.0–55.7%)
- Social Isolation: 37.3%
- Depression: 30.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.0%
- Poverty Rate: 24.1% (14.7–33.4%)
- Food Insecurity: 22.5%
- Diabetes: 15.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.9%
- Unemployment: 7.1% (2.0–12.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Newark city is served by 38 churches — about one congregation for every 976 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Saint Pauls Lutheran Church — 0 mi away
- Plymouth United Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Francis De Sales Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Legacy Church In Newark, Ohio — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Sixth Street Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Redemption Church of Licking County — 0.2 mi away
- Central Church of the Nazarene — 0.2 mi away
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 0.2 mi away
- Church of God — 0.2 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Trinity African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Faith United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Christ United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Neal Avenue United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Wright Memorial United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away