First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 1024 Peach Street in Erie, PA 16501. It is one of 205 churches in Erie, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
First United Methodist Church of Downtown Erie, founded in 1826, has a long, proud history of serving the diverse community of Erie and its surrounding areas.
Serving since 1826
1024 Peach Street, Erie, PA, 16501Service times
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 9:30am · - -
- Tuesday 1pm
- Thursday 9:30am
Shares a ministry location with The Cross.
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 First United Methodist Church in Downtown Erie's YouTube channel: FUMC Erie Sanctuary Worship Service (all videos).
The community around First United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 7 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,200 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: 79.0%
- Poverty Rate: 48.0% (34.7–61.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.4%
- Obesity: 44.6%
- Diabetes: 17.5%
- Unemployment: 9.7% (1.0–19.5%)
- Depression: 26.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Erie city is served by 103 churches — about one congregation for every 920 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- The Cross — 0 mi away
- Grace Fellowship International Church — 0 mi away
- Saint Peter Cathedral Church — 0.2 mi away
- Luther Memorial Church — 0.2 mi away
- Field of Dreams Harvest Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Cathedral of Saint Paul — 0.3 mi away
- Solomon's Porch Apostolic Assembly — 0.3 mi away
- Episcopal Diocese of Northwestern Pennsylvania — 0.3 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church of the Covenant — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Simpson United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- A United Methodist Community — 0.7 mi away
- Glenwood United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away