First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 3316 Kingston Pike in Knoxville, TN 37919. It is one of 684 churches in Knoxville, and one of 59 Methodist congregations in the city.
Our mission is to grow passionate followers of Jesus Christ committed to making an impact in Knoxville and beyond.
First Church Knox: A United Methodist Community is committed to loving others as we have been loved. With equal emphasis on acceptance, growth, and service, this community believes faith can also be authentic and fun.
3316 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN, 37919Shares a ministry location with First Church Knox.
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.
Find First United Methodist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
Watch
Latest from First Church Knox: UMC on Vimeo: First Church Livestream (all videos).
The community around First United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.
- Depression: 32.8%
- Poverty Rate: 28.0% (17.1–39.0%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Knoxville city is served by 226 churches — about one congregation for every 868 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- First Church Knox — 0 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Laurel Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Knoxville First Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Emmanuel Church Knoxville — 0.3 mi away
- First Church of Christian Science — 0.3 mi away
- Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Marble City Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Second Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Antioch Commnity Church — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- West View United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Virginia Avenue United Methodist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Second United Methodist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Wallace Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 1.8 mi away
- Redemption Church — 2 mi away
See all churches in Knoxville, TN · All churches in Tennessee