First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Myrtle Beach, SC 29577. It is one of 152 churches in Myrtle Beach.
Myrtle Beach, SC, 29577First 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 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 41.7% (22.7–60.7%)
- Food Insecurity: 40.7%
- Poverty Rate: 38.0% (24.1–52.0%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 31.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 28.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.7%
- Diabetes: 19.8%
- Obesity: 43.7%
- Social Isolation: 34.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.0%
- Depression: 23.2%
- Unemployment: 6.1% (1.5–10.7%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Myrtle Beach city is served by 22 churches — about one congregation for every 1,577 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Agape Christian Fellowship — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Sandy Grove Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mt Olive Ame Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Nicholas Orthodox Church — 0.5 mi away
- Coastal Church: First Baptist Myrtle Beach — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Inglis — 0.6 mi away
- Shield's Chapel FBH — 0.7 mi away
- True Faith Word Ministries — 0.9 mi away
- Now Faith COH Ministries — 0.9 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 1.6 mi away
- Surf Church MB — 4.4 mi away
- Joseph B. Bethea United Methodist Church — 6.7 mi away
- Socastee United Methodist Church — 7 mi away
- Surfside United Methodist Church — 7.2 mi away in Surfside Beach, SC
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