First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 322 Vance Dr. in Bristol, TN 37620. It is one of 102 churches in Bristol, and one of 3 United Methodist congregations in the city.
We seek to respond to that grace by loving God, loving our neighbors, growing together in faith, and serving our community with compassion and justice.
At First United Methodist Church, we are building a community where every person is welcomed, beloved, and empowered to live as a disciple of Jesus.
322 Vance Dr., Bristol, TN, 37620Service times
- Sunday 11am
Phone: (423) 652-2811 · Website: http://fumcbristol.org/
First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,082 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Tennessee — 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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Latest from First United Methodist Church of Bristol TN's YouTube channel: Sunday Worship-09/13/26 (all videos).
The community around First United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults here carry depression. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Depression: 30.3%
- Obesity: 37.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.7%
- Diabetes: 14.5%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Bristol city is served by 37 churches — about one congregation for every 731 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.2 mi away
- South Bristol United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Woodlawn Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Edgemont Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Central Christian Church — 0.7 mi away
- Windsor Avenue Presbyterian Church — 0.9 mi away
- God's House — 1 mi away
- The Strong Tower Church — 1 mi away
- Anderson Street United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 1 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- South Bristol United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Anderson Street United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Hood Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 1 mi away
- Virginia Avenue United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away