First United Methodist Church of Alva

First United Methodist Church of Alva is a United Methodist church in Alva, OK 73717. It is one of 22 churches in Alva.

Alva, OK, 73717

Website: http://www.alvafumc.com/

First United Methodist Church of Alva is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 408 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Oklahoma — 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 of Alva

In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.

  • Social Isolation: 35.6%
  • Depression: 28.1%
  • Poverty Rate: 24.7% (16.1–33.2%)
  • Food Insecurity: 21.1%
  • Obesity: 38.7%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.4%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.5%
  • Unemployment: 7.4% (0.6–14.1%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

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