First United Methodist Church

First United Methodist Church is a church in Tamaqua, PA 18252. It is one of 22 churches in Tamaqua.

Tamaqua, PA, 18252

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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The community around First United Methodist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. 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 the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.

Obesity: 42.1%
Depression: 28.2%
Poverty Rate: 27.7% (16.6–38.8%)
Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.2%
Diabetes: 13.6%
Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.3% (6.9–19.7%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Tamaqua borough is served by 12 churches — about one congregation for every 575 residents.

Churches near First United Methodist Church

Tamaqua Primitive Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
Trinity United Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
St. Jerome Parish Center — 0.2 mi away
Saint John XXIII Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
Calvary Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
Saint John's Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
Bethany Evangelical Congregational Church — 0.3 mi away
Saint John's United Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
St. John XXIII Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away

More Methodist churches nearby

Tamaqua Primitive Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
Bethany United Methodist Church — 3.4 mi away in Barnesville, PA
Zion United Methodist Church — 3.8 mi away
Coaldale United Methodist Church — 4.1 mi away in Coaldale, PA
Ebenezer United Methodist Church — 5 mi away

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