First United Methodist
First United Methodist is a Methodist church at 2300 Ave, TX, 77414 in Bay City, TX 77414. It is one of 52 churches in Bay City, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
At First Methodist Church Bay City, Texas, our mission is to partner with God in transforming people from unbelievers to fully devoted disciples of Jesus to the glory of God through outreach, connecting, forming, and sending people to love and serve others as Jesus loves us.
2300 Ave, TX, 77414, Bay City, TX, 77414Service times
Monday-Thursday 4:30-6:30pm (as listed)
Phone: (979) 245-4627 · Website: https://www.fmcbaycity.com/
First United Methodist is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,579 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Texas — 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
- Food Voucher Mission
Find First United Methodist on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around First United Methodist
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 a quarter of the people here live without health insurance, and nearly a quarter of 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): 23.9% (15.9–31.8%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.2%
- Unemployment: 8.4% (2.6–14.1%)
- Obesity: 37.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.8%
- Poverty Rate: 17.7% (8.8–26.6%)
- Diabetes: 14.4%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Bay City city is served by 16 churches — about one congregation for every 805 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist
- The Chapel — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- St. Mark's Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- High Five Church — 0.3 mi away
- Jesus Freewill Holy Temple Church — 0.4 mi away
- St Matthews Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Enterprise Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mother Zion Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Our Lady-guadalupe Catholic — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- The Chapel — 0.1 mi away
- First Methodist Church of Sweeny — 16.9 mi away in Sweeny, TX
- Matagorda United Methodist Church — 19.9 mi away in Matagorda, TX
- Columbia Methodist Church — 22.3 mi away in West Columbia, TX
- First United Methodist Church — 24.1 mi away in Palacios, TX