First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Salem, OH 44460. It is one of 32 churches in Salem, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
Salem, OH, 44460First 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.
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The community around First United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, 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 about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 40.8%
- Social Isolation: 33.0%
- Diabetes: 15.5%
- Depression: 25.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.7%
- Poverty Rate: 16.5% (8.6–24.5%)
- Food Insecurity: 15.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Salem city is served by 13 churches — about one congregation for every 412 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Emmanuel Lutheran Church — 0 mi away
- Tri-County Church Of God — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Believers Christian Fellowship Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Paul Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Holy Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Harvest Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Heritage Baptist Church- Ellsworth, Ohio — 0.7 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist — 2.3 mi away
- Damascus Methodist Church — 5.1 mi away
- Winona United Methodist Church — 5.3 mi away in Winona, OH
- First United Methodist Church of Leetonia — 5.6 mi away in Leetonia, OH