First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 1076 Franklin Avenue in Astoria, OR 97103. It is one of 28 churches in Astoria.
1076 Franklin Avenue, Astoria, OR, 97103First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 151 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Oregon — 25,985 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 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and about 1 in 15 travel more than an hour to work. 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.
- Depression: 26.9%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Astoria city is served by 16 churches — about one congregation for every 648 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 0 mi away
- Peace First Lutheran Church, ELCA - downtown — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Pacific Unitarian Universalist Fellowship — 0.1 mi away
- Astoria Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Astoria Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Apostolic Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Grace Community — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Astoria — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Mary, Star of the Sea Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Seaside United Methodist Church — 13.9 mi away in Seaside, OR
- United Methodist Church — 18.8 mi away
- United Methodist Ocean Park — 23.6 mi away