First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 742 Parkway in Gatlinburg, TN 37738. It is one of 17 churches in Gatlinburg, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
To reveal Jesus Christ in the world and to follow his teachings through acts of devotion, worship, compassion, and justice under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
Serving since 1945 · Accessible parking
742 Parkway, Gatlinburg, TN, 37738Service times
- Sunday 8:30am · Worship &
- Sunday 11am · Worship &
- Wednesday 6pm · Night Fellowship
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 Gatlinburg's YouTube channel: Gatlinburg First United Methodist Church service 6/3/22 (all videos).
The community around First United Methodist Church
It takes 2.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, nearly a quarter of the people here live without health insurance, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 22.5% (14.9–30.2%)
- Depression: 27.6%
- Obesity: 37.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.8%
- Diabetes: 14.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Gatlinburg city is served by 10 churches — about one congregation for every 324 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Little Mountain Church - Old Wedding Chapel — 0.1 mi away
- Gatlinburg Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Mary Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Gatlinburg Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Our Savior Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Laurel Grove Primitive Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Roaring Fork Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- First Baptist Gatlinburg — 1.1 mi away
- Calvary Fellowship of Gatlinburg — 1.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Huskey's Grove United Methodist Church — 2.6 mi away in Sevierville, TN
- First Methodist Church — 5.4 mi away in Pigeon Forge, TN
- The Forge Church — 5.4 mi away in Pigeon Forge, TN
- Wears Valley United Methodist Church — 6.7 mi away in Sevierville, TN
- Burnett Memorial Methodist Church — 7.6 mi away in Sevierville, TN
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