First United Methodist Church

First United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 399 Old River Road in Wilkes-Barre, PA 18706. It is one of 82 churches in Wilkes-Barre, and one of 4 United Methodist congregations in the city.

399 Old River Road, Wilkes-Barre, PA, 18706

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 a few blocks of these doors, 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 2,300 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: 39.9%
  • Depression: 23.8%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.0%
  • Poverty Rate: 17.0% (7.4–26.7%)

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

Wilkes-Barre city is served by 54 churches — about one congregation for every 820 residents.

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