First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 113 West Central Avenue in Van Wert, OH 45891. It is one of 39 churches in Van Wert, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
The mission of First Church is to make disciples of Jesus Christ who Love Boldly, Serve Joyfully, and Lead Courageously in our local community and around the world.
Accessible parking
113 West Central Avenue, Van Wert, OH, 45891Service times
- Sunday 9am · School with offerings for all ages starts
Phone: +1 419 238 0631 · Website: https://www.vanwertfirst.net/
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.
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The community around First United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. More than a third of adults live with obesity, 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 the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 35.1%
- Obesity: 38.8%
- Depression: 26.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.4%
- Food Insecurity: 15.3%
- Diabetes: 14.2%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Van Wert city is served by 19 churches — about one congregation for every 587 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Van Wert First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Van Wert Christian Center — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Mark's Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity Global Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Soulbridge Vineyard Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- Emmanuel Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Church on the Horizon — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Trinity Global Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Pleasant Chapel United Methodist — 3.6 mi away
- Ohio City United Methodist Church — 6.9 mi away in Ohio City, OH
- Convoy Methodist Church — 7.3 mi away in Convoy, OH