Athens First
Athens First is a Methodist church in Athens, TX 75751. It is one of 88 churches in Athens.
Athens, TX, 75751Website: https://www.firstathens.org/
Athens First is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,558 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Texas — 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.
Find Athens First on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
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Latest from Athens First Methodist Community's YouTube channel: Traditional Worship 08/02/2026 (all videos).
The community around Athens First
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 1 in 7 the people here live without health insurance, and about 1 in 7 working-age adults live without health insurance. 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.
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.1% (10.7–21.4%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.5%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Athens city is served by 27 churches — about one congregation for every 313 residents.
Churches near Athens First
- Eastern Hills Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Athens Church of God — 0.5 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.5 mi away
- St John Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away
- Lila Lane Outreach Ministries — 0.6 mi away
- Lake Community Fellowship — 0.6 mi away
- Christian Science Church — 0.7 mi away
- Los Pentecostales de Athens — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 2.6 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 7.8 mi away in Murchison, TX
- First United Methodist Church — 10.1 mi away in Malakoff, TX
- Market Street United Methodist Church — 12.2 mi away in Eustace, TX
- Eustace United Methodist Church — 12.2 mi away in Eustace, TX