First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a church at 330 West Market Street in Pottsville, PA 17901. It is one of 23 churches in Pottsville.
330 West Market Street, Pottsville, PA, 17901First 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 describe their own health as fair or poor. More than a third of adults live with obesity, 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 healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.1%
- Obesity: 44.3%
- Depression: 28.4%
- Poverty Rate: 25.4% (13.2–37.5%)
- Child Poverty: 27.0% (11.7–42.4%)
- Diabetes: 14.4%
- Unemployment: 7.1% (2.2–12.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Pottsville city is served by 17 churches — about one congregation for every 787 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Trinity United Church of Christ — 0 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Patrick Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Word of Life Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Salvation Army — 0.2 mi away
- BeComingOne Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Ann's Cathedral Palestinian Orthodox — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Bethel AME Church — 0.3 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 1.7 mi away in Port Carbon, PA
- First United Methodist Church — 1.8 mi away in Port Carbon, PA
- St. Clair-Wade United Methodist Church — 2.5 mi away in Saint Clair, PA
- First Primitive Methodist Church — 2.6 mi away in St. Clair, PA
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