First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 537 Front St in East Bethlehem Twp, PA 15333-2147. It is one of 2 churches in East Bethlehem Twp.
Services in Spanish and Portuguese and Korean
537 Front St, East Bethlehem Twp, PA, 15333-2147Phone: +17243772226 · Website: http://www.umc.org
First 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
In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 48.4% (31.6–65.3%)
- Obesity: 41.0%
- Depression: 24.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.3%
- Poverty Rate: 20.9% (13.8–27.9%)
- Diabetes: 13.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- St Oliver Plunkett Parish — 0.1 mi away in Fredericktown, PA
- Pillar Of Faith Church — 0.2 mi away
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away in Vestaburg, PA
- Saint James Church — 1.7 mi away
- Zion Church — 2.1 mi away in Centerville, PA
- East Bethlehem Church — 2.1 mi away in Deemston, PA
- West Bend Church — 2.5 mi away
- Clarksville Christian Church — 3.1 mi away in Clarksville, PA
- Jehovah's Witnesses — 3.1 mi away in Centerville, PA
- Centerville United Methodist Church — 3.2 mi away in Centerville, PA
More Methodist churches nearby
- West Bend Church — 2.5 mi away
- Centerville United Methodist Church — 3.2 mi away in Centerville, PA
- Taylor Church — 3.7 mi away in Brownsville, PA
- Bealsville United Methodist Church — 4.7 mi away in Beallsville, PA
- Free Methodist Church — 5.3 mi away in Jefferson, PA