First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church in Lancaster, SC 29720. It is one of 136 churches in Lancaster, and one of 4 United Methodist congregations in the city.
Encountering God, Building Community, Transforming Lives.
Welcome to the online home of First United Methodist Church. We are glad you are here! Located in downtown Lancaster, First Church is committed to loving God and loving others, as we continue to live into our motto: Encountering God, Building Community, Transforming Lives.
Lancaster, SC, 29720Service times
- Sunday 10am · School
Phone: (803) 283-8406 · Website: http://firstlancaster.com/
First 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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The community around First United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Obesity: 47.3%
- Food Insecurity: 38.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.4%
- Diabetes: 21.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.5%
- Unemployment: 15.8% (4.8–26.7%)
- Social Isolation: 36.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.5%
- Poverty Rate: 24.1% (14.2–34.0%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.2% (8.6–21.8%)
- Depression: 23.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Lancaster city is served by 14 churches — about one congregation for every 663 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- First Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Living Word Church of Lancaster — 0.2 mi away
- Pleasant Ridge Church — 0.3 mi away
- Second Baptist Church - Calvary Campus — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Zion Church — 0.4 mi away
- Leap Of Faith — 0.4 mi away
- St Paul AME Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Good Shepherd Church — 1.8 mi away
- Lynwood United Methodist Church — 2.2 mi away
- Grace-Lynnwood United Methodist Church — 2.6 mi away
- Centennial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 2.7 mi away
- Zion United Methodist Church — 4.2 mi away
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