Walters First United Methodist Church
Walters First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Walters, OK 73572. It is one of 24 churches in Walters.
Walters, OK, 73572Walters 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 Walters First United Methodist Church
It takes 7.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Obesity: 43.0%
- Child Poverty: 36.5% (24.9–48.2%)
- Social Isolation: 32.3%
- Poverty Rate: 23.3% (16.5–30.1%)
- Diabetes: 15.3%
- Depression: 26.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.2%
- Food Insecurity: 19.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Walters city is served by 6 churches — about one congregation for every 558 residents.
Churches near Walters First United Methodist Church
- Saint Patrick Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of the Nazarene — 0.1 mi away
- Open Door Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Presence of the Lord Church — 0.2 mi away
- Walters Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Walters FBC Youth — 0.3 mi away
- St. Patrick Catholic Church - Walters, OK — 0.7 mi away
- Walters Calvary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Grant Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 16.9 mi away in Lawton, OK
- Centenary United Methodist Church — 17.6 mi away in Lawton, OK
- New Light — 18.5 mi away in Lawton, OK
- First United Methodist Church — 18.8 mi away in Lawton, OK
- St. Paul's United Methodist Church — 19.3 mi away in Lawton, OK