First United Methodist Church of Hershey

First United Methodist Church of Hershey is a United Methodist church at 64 West Chocolate Avenue in Hershey, PA 17033. It is one of 23 churches in Hershey.

64 West Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, PA, 17033

First United Methodist Church of Hershey 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 of Hershey

Within about a mile of this church, nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. About 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and about 1 in 20 travel more than an hour to work. 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: 23.9%
  • Unemployment: 7.9% (2.3–13.5%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

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