First Metheodist Church

First Metheodist Church is a Methodist church in Emporium, PA 15834. It is one of 16 churches in Emporium.

Emporium, PA, 15834

Shares a ministry location with Endless Mountains Methodist Church and United Methodist Church First.

First Metheodist 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 Metheodist Church

Within about a mile of this church, about 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. Nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, 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 the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.

  • Unemployment: 13.2% (6.7–19.6%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.9%
  • Depression: 27.4%
  • Diabetes: 15.3%
  • Obesity: 39.8%
  • Poverty Rate: 18.1% (12.3–23.8%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Emporium borough is served by 7 churches — about one congregation for every 284 residents.

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