First United Methodist Church

First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Ontario, OR 97914. It is one of 34 churches in Ontario.

Ontario, OR, 97914

Shares a ministry location with Ontario United Methodist Church.

First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 138 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Oregon — 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 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 42.1%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.6%
  • Poverty Rate: 23.4% (15.4–31.5%)
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.8%
  • Child Poverty: 27.4% (10.8–43.9%)
  • Depression: 25.2%
  • Diabetes: 13.5%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.4% (7.3–15.5%)
  • Unemployment: 6.3% (2.6–9.9%)

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

Ontario city is served by 15 churches — about one congregation for every 342 residents.

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