First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 20 Church Street in Carbondale, PA 18407. It is one of 12 churches in Carbondale.
20 Church Street, Carbondale, PA, 18407Shares a ministry location with First Presbyterian Church.
First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,331 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Pennsylvania — 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 a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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 the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 43.7% (31.3–56.0%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.2%
- Poverty Rate: 25.0% (16.4–33.5%)
- Obesity: 36.8%
- Depression: 26.3%
- Diabetes: 13.9%
- Unemployment: 7.6% (2.0–13.2%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Carbondale city is served by 6 churches — about one congregation for every 1,469 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- First Presbyterian Church — 0 mi away
- St. Rose Church — 0 mi away
- Mainstream Revival Center — 0.1 mi away
- Berean Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Covenant Reformed Church — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church — 0.5 mi away
- The Carbondale Church — 1.1 mi away
- St Basil's Russian Orthodox Church — 1.7 mi away
- St. Basil the Great Orthodox Church — 1.9 mi away in Simpson, PA
More Methodist churches nearby
- Primitive Methodist Church of Jermyn — 3.5 mi away in Mayfield, PA
- First United Methodist Church of Jermyn — 3.8 mi away in Jermyn, PA
- Tompkinsville United Methodist Church — 4.4 mi away in Jermyn, PA
- Calvary United Methodist Church — 4.8 mi away in Waymart, PA
- Clifford United Methodist Church — 7.2 mi away in Vandling, PA
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