First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Poteau, OK 74953. It is one of 35 churches in Poteau.
Poteau, OK, 74953Service times
Thursday 8:00 am; Wednesday, Sept 10 from 3:15-5:00 p.m (as listed)
First United Methodist Church 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
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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 tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 26.0%
- Obesity: 40.4%
- Social Isolation: 35.7%
- Child Poverty: 31.9% (18.8–44.9%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.6%
- Depression: 27.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.4%
- Poverty Rate: 21.7% (15.0–28.4%)
- Housing Insecurity: 17.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.8%
- Diabetes: 14.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.5%
- Unemployment: 6.0% (2.5–9.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Poteau city is served by 12 churches — about one congregation for every 780 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- First Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Church of the Nazarene — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Faith Community Poteau — 0.1 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Beginning Family Ministry — 0.3 mi away
- Immaculate Conception Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Barnabas Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Southside Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
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- Cavanaugh United Methodist Church — 21.4 mi away in Fort Smith, AR
- Saint Andrew United Methodist Church — 22.3 mi away in Fort Smith, AR