First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 200 North Market Street in Berwick, PA 18603. It is one of 33 churches in Berwick, and one of 4 United Methodist congregations in the city.
We are devoted to enhancing the community through ministries like Bible studies, online prayer services, and outreach programs to strengthen faith.
First United Methodist Church of Berwick offers fellowship, prayer, support, and spiritual guidance.
200 North Market Street, Berwick, PA, 18603First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,293 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Pennsylvania — 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 3 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly a quarter of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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: 37.7%
- Child Poverty: 24.9% (7.1–42.6%)
- Depression: 24.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.5%
- Poverty Rate: 17.4% (8.8–26.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Berwick borough is served by 5 churches — about one congregation for every 2,063 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bower Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Foundry Church Berwick — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Salvation Army — 0.3 mi away
- Pine Street Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Heritage Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Berwick Christian Church — 0.7 mi away
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away in Nescopeck, PA
- St. Joseph's — 0.8 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Berwick Christian Church — 0.7 mi away
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away in Nescopeck, PA
- Living Hope Community Church — 0.8 mi away in Nescopeck, PA
- Black Creek Church — 5.8 mi away in Conyngham, PA
- Ebenezer Church — 7.1 mi away
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