First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Ripley, TN 38063. It is one of 50 churches in Ripley.
Ripley, TN, 38063First 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.
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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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Obesity: 51.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.4%
- Diabetes: 20.6%
- Child Poverty: 39.0% (21.1–56.9%)
- Poverty Rate: 28.0% (19.5–36.4%)
- Depression: 27.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.4%
- Unemployment: 8.2% (3.3–13.2%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.9% (7.3–16.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Ripley city is served by 6 churches — about one congregation for every 1,023 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Emanuel Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Miles Chapel CME Church — 0.1 mi away
- Holly Grove Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Ripley First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Gospel Rock Holiness Church — 0.5 mi away
- Spiller Hill Church of God in Christ — 0.6 mi away
- First Assembly of God — 0.6 mi away
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Beginnings Christian Center Church — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Trinity Church — 7.8 mi away in Brownsville, TN
- Faith United Methodist Church — 10.8 mi away in Henning, TN
- Halls First Methodist Church — 11.4 mi away in Halls, TN
- Collins Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 13.7 mi away in Covington, TN
- First United Methodist Church — 14.2 mi away in Covington, TN