First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 204 North 2nd Street in Memphis, TN 38105. It is one of 1,544 churches in Memphis, and one of 86 Methodist congregations in the city.
Today, several ministries serving the homeless use Memphis First United Methodist Church's space to feed and shelter their clients.
204 North 2nd Street, Memphis, TN, 38105Service times
- Sunday 11am · morning
Phone: (901) 527-8362 · Website: https://www.firstchurchmemphis.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.
Ministries at First United Methodist Church
- Homeless Services
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The community around First United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 the people here live below the poverty line. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Poverty Rate: 25.9% (16.6–35.3%)
- Obesity: 39.9%
- Depression: 25.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.8%
- Diabetes: 14.1%
- Unemployment: 6.1% (1.4–11.6%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Memphis city is served by 1,033 churches — about one congregation for every 596 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- First Presbyterian Church — 0 mi away
- Saint Mary's Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Light of Glory International Church — 0.1 mi away
- Memphis Inner-City Outreach Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Peter Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Calvary Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- The Downtown Church — 0.4 mi away
- Pioneer Church Memphis — 0.4 mi away
- Fellowship Memphis - Downtown — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Jacob's Well — 0.9 mi away
- Holy Community Church — 0.9 mi away
- United Methodist Neighborhood Centers of Memphis — 0.9 mi away
- Mount Olive Christian Methodist Episcopal Cathedral — 0.9 mi away
- Providence African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.3 mi away