First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 212 Washington Avenue, TN, 37821 in Newport, TN 37821. It is one of 88 churches in Newport.
212 Washington Avenue, TN, 37821, Newport, TN, 37821Service times
- Thursday 5:45pm · nights
Phone: (423) 623-6066 · Website: http://www.fumcnewport.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
- Celebrate Recovery
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Latest from First UMC Newport's YouTube channel: Sunday Worship - "Freedom to Forgive" - September 13, 2026 (all videos).
The community around First United Methodist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand 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.
- Child Poverty: 44.4% (28.5–60.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.1%
- Obesity: 41.3%
- Depression: 31.9%
- Poverty Rate: 22.5% (16.1–28.9%)
- Diabetes: 17.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.5%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Newport city is served by 23 churches — about one congregation for every 184 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Holy Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Lincoln Avenue Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Church of Nazarene — 0.2 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Riverview Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Newport Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- New Zion AME Zion Church — 0.7 mi away
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Greggs Chapel — 0.7 mi away
- Episcopal Church of the Annunciation — 0.8 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- New Zion AME Zion Church — 0.7 mi away
- Bybee United Methodist Church — 5.8 mi away
- Parrottsville United Methodist Church — 5.8 mi away in Parrottsville, TN
- Fowlers Grove Church — 6.5 mi away
- Belmont Methodist Church — 8.4 mi away in Dandridge, TN