First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church in Portsmouth, OH 45662. It is one of 81 churches in Portsmouth.
Services in Spanish and Portuguese and Korean
Portsmouth, OH, 45662Phone: (615) 742-5400 · Website: http://www.umc.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.
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The community around First United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 45.2%
- Social Isolation: 41.0%
- Poverty Rate: 35.8% (25.4–46.3%)
- Depression: 32.9%
- Food Insecurity: 27.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.5%
- Diabetes: 15.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.5%
- Unemployment: 10.8% (3.6–17.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 17.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Portsmouth city is served by 43 churches — about one congregation for every 413 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Evangel Temple Assembly of God Church — 0.1 mi away
- Shadow of the Almighty Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Evangelical United Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- Nauvoo United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Second Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Temple Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- All Saints Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Findlay Street United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Nauvoo United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Findlay Street United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Cornerstone United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Franklin Avenue United Methodist Church — 1 mi away