First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 410 East Mahanoy Street in Mahanoy City, PA 17948. It is one of 16 churches in Mahanoy City.
410 East Mahanoy Street, Mahanoy City, PA, 17948First 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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The community around First United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 the people here live below the poverty line. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. 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.
- Poverty Rate: 33.9% (22.0–45.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.3%
- Unemployment: 12.7% (6.8–18.6%)
- Obesity: 43.6%
- Depression: 27.0%
- Diabetes: 16.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.4% (1.4–21.4%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Mahanoy City borough is served by 16 churches — about one congregation for every 221 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Saint Fidelis — 0.1 mi away
- Grace Reformed Church — 0.1 mi away
- Zion Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Salem Evangelical Congregational Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Congregational Church — 0.2 mi away
- Christ Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church of Mahanoy City — 0.2 mi away
- St. Paul's United Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Casimir's Parish — 0.4 mi away
- First American Primitive Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First American Primitive Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bethany First United Methodist Church — 3.3 mi away in Shenandoah, PA
- Primitive Methodist Church — 3.5 mi away in Shenandoah, PA
- Gilberton Methodist Church — 3.9 mi away in Gilberton, PA
- United Methodist Church — 3.9 mi away in Gilberton, PA
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