First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a church in Cookeville, TN 38501. It is one of 154 churches in Cookeville.
Our Adult Ministries provide opportunities for all adults, from young adults in their early 20s to senior adults.
Cookeville, TN, 38501Service times
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 9am
- Sunday 8:30am · for traditional worship services in sanctuary
- Sunday 11:15am
Shares a ministry location with Wesley Chapel.
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.
Ministries at First United Methodist Church
- Food Pantry
- Lifelong Learning
- Adult Sunday School Classes
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Latest from Cookeville FUMC's YouTube channel: Service of Worship - September 13th, 2026 (11:00am) (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. Nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line, and about 1 in 5 describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,200 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: 30.4%
- Poverty Rate: 23.3% (15.6–30.9%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.2%
- Unemployment: 6.3% (2.0–10.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Cookeville city is served by 55 churches — about one congregation for every 463 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Cookeville Aglow Lighthouse — 0 mi away
- Wesley Chapel — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Engrafted Word Church — 0.3 mi away
- Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Cookeville — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Scott Avenue Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- St. Michael's Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Willow Ave Church Of Christ — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Algood United Methodist Church — 3.6 mi away in Algood, TN
- Friendship United Methodist — 5.3 mi away
- Brotherton United Methodist Church — 6.6 mi away
- Baxter United Methodist Church — 8 mi away in Baxter, TN
- Almyra Methodist Church — 10.6 mi away in Sparta, TN
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