First United Methodist Church

First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 27 E Church Street in Lexington, TN 38351. It is one of 59 churches in Lexington.

FUMC Lexington began its history with a small log church built in 1840 near Olive Branch in the northern part of the county. This was the first Methodist church in Henderson County.

Serving since 1943

27 E Church Street, Lexington, TN, 38351

Service times

  • Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 10am

Phone: (731) 968-2116 · Website: http://fumclexington.org/

First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,068 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Tennessee — 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.

Ministries at First United Methodist Church

  • Food Pantry

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Upcoming events at First United Methodist Church

  • Thu, Aug 6 · 9 AM: Food Pantry - Volunteers
  • Thu, Aug 6 · 10:45 AM: 2nd Harvest Delivery — Gym/LEC – Room 115, Kitchen – Rooms 110 & 111, Wrather Hall – Room 100, Gym/LEC – Room 115, Kitchen – Rooms 110 & 111, Wrather Hall – Room 100
  • Thu, Aug 6 · 12:30 PM: Food Pantry — Gym/LEC – Room 115, Kitchen – Rooms 110 & 111, Wrather Hall – Room 100
  • Thu, Aug 6 · 6 PM: Exercise Class — Gym/LEC – Room 115
  • Sun, Aug 9 · 10:15 AM: Sunday Worship — Sanctuary – Room 204

From First United Methodist Church's public calendar (http://fumclexington.org/). Times are the church's local time.

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The community around First United Methodist Church

In the few miles around this church, more than 2 in 10 adults here carry depression. Nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes. That is two thousand 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: 29.1%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.4%
  • Diabetes: 16.0%
  • Unemployment: 9.1% (2.0–16.2%)
  • Obesity: 39.5%
  • Child Poverty: 22.6% (9.5–36.2%)
  • Poverty Rate: 20.5% (11.7–29.2%)
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.3% (6.3–16.3%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

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