Central United Methodist Church
Central United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 167 South Irby Street in Florence, SC 29501. It is one of 227 churches in Florence, and one of 8 Methodist congregations in the city.
The church’s mission is to share this good news, inviting people to follow Jesus.
Our core beliefs are based in the Christian tradition and reflect our United Methodist heritage.
167 South Irby Street, Florence, SC, 29501Service times
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 8am
Phone: (843) 662-3218 · Website: http://www.centralmethodist.net/
Central United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 853 congregations of the Methodist family gather across South Carolina — 25,370 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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Latest from Central United Methodist Church - Florence, SC's YouTube channel: August 2, 2026 - The Well - Central UMC (all videos).
The community around Central 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. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 47.9% (35.3–60.8%)
- Obesity: 45.5%
- Poverty Rate: 34.2% (22.8–45.6%)
- Food Insecurity: 33.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.3%
- Diabetes: 21.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.6%
- Social Isolation: 36.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.1%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Florence city is served by 72 churches — about one congregation for every 514 residents.
Churches near Central United Methodist Church
- Open Door Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Hope Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Cumberland United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- The Church Of Jesus Christ — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Santuary — 0.2 mi away
- St John's Church (Anglican) — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Ministries - Florence SC — 0.3 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Pentecostal Holiness Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Cumberland United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Southern Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Paul United Methodist Church — 1.8 mi away
- New Covenant Global Methodist Church — 2.3 mi away
- Dawsey United Methodist Church — 3.3 mi away
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