First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a church at 68 N Church St in Ephrata, PA 17522-2038. It is one of 59 churches in Ephrata.
MISSIONWe exist to bring people to Jesus Christ and to help them become His fully devoted followers.
Why We ExistVISIONRaising disciples of Jesus Christ, we equip and nurture individuals who love and serve God with all their being and one another as Jesus loved, and who carry life to everyone they meet.
68 N Church St, Ephrata, PA, 17522-2038Service times
- Sunday 8:30am
Phone: (717) 738-2465 · Website: https://www.ephratafirst.org/
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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Latest from EphrataFirstChurch's YouTube channel: 9/13/2026 Worship Service 8:30 (all videos).
The community around First United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, 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 lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Depression: 24.4%
Source: CDC PLACES (2022), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Christ House — 0.1 mi away
- House of Blessings — 0.1 mi away
- Reformed Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- City Gate Lancaster — 0.2 mi away
- New Covenant Church of God Ephrata — 0.2 mi away
- Ephrata Bible Chapel — 0.2 mi away
- Bethany United Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- The Living Room — 0.3 mi away
- Holy Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Beginnings Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Hope United Methodist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 4.2 mi away in Denver, PA
- Zion Church — 4.6 mi away in Stevens, PA
- Hopeland Church — 5.4 mi away in Lititz, PA
- Brunnerville United Methodist Church — 5.6 mi away in Lititz, PA
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