First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 1838 Southwest Jefferson Street in Portland, OR 97201. It is one of 646 churches in Portland, and one of 21 Methodist congregations in the city.
Hearing assistance
1838 Southwest Jefferson Street, Portland, OR, 97201Service times
- Sunday 10:30am
Phone: +1-503-228-3195 · Website: https://fumcpdx.org/
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.
Ministries at First United Methodist Church
- Food pantry
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Watch
Latest from First United Methodist Church of Portland, OR's YouTube channel: Unhurried | "The Shepherd's Pace" | Rev. Todd Bartlett | 8/2/2026 | 10:30am (all videos).
The community around First United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of adults here carry depression, and about 1 in 5 the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,400 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: 30.7%
- Poverty Rate: 17.4% (12.3–22.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Portland city is served by 353 churches — about one congregation for every 1,833 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Zion Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Intown Church — 0.2 mi away
- St. Stephen's Episcopal Parish — 0.3 mi away
- Church of Scientology — 0.3 mi away
- Grace Church Portland — 0.3 mi away
- Portland Healing Rooms — 0.4 mi away
- Fresh Life Church - PDX — 0.4 mi away
- First Unitarian Portland — 0.4 mi away
- Counterculture Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church of the City — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Hughes Memorial United Methodist Church — 2.7 mi away
- Epworth United Methodist Church — 2.8 mi away
- The Groves Church — 3.2 mi away
- Vermont Hills United Methodist Church — 3.2 mi away
- Fremont United Methodist Church — 3.4 mi away