First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 857 Putnam Avenue in Zanesville, OH 43701. It is one of 88 churches in Zanesville, and one of 5 Methodist congregations in the city.
857 Putnam Avenue, Zanesville, OH, 43701First 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 5 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 51.7%
- Poverty Rate: 35.3% (23.3–47.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.5%
- Food Insecurity: 29.2%
- Unemployment: 19.8% (11.9–27.6%)
- Diabetes: 19.1%
- Child Poverty: 38.9% (19.6–58.2%)
- Social Isolation: 36.9%
- Depression: 30.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 20.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Zanesville city is served by 44 churches — about one congregation for every 356 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Trulight Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- Fair Oaks Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Calvary Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Salvation Army — 0.4 mi away
- Putnam Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- The Pentecostals of Zanesville — 0.5 mi away
- Y-City Fellowship — 0.5 mi away
- Woodlawn Avenue Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Church of God and Saints Christ — 0.6 mi away
- St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Brighton Free Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Central Trinity United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Sharon Avenue Free Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away