First Methodist Church

First Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 501 Church Street in Sweetwater, TN 37874. It is one of 45 churches in Sweetwater, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.

501 Church Street, Sweetwater, TN, 37874

Website: https://sweetwaterumc.org/

First 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.

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The community around First Methodist Church

In the few miles around this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.

  • Obesity: 40.3%
  • Depression: 31.3%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.3%
  • Diabetes: 16.7%
  • Poverty Rate: 17.7% (10.7–24.8%)
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.9%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.1% (6.1–16.1%)
  • Unemployment: 6.7% (2.6–10.8%)

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

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