First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 201 South Locust Street in Denton, TX 76201. It is one of 157 churches in Denton, and one of 2 United Methodist congregations in the city.
At FUMC Denton, we are a church that is passionate about shining God’s love into every life.
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201 South Locust Street, Denton, TX, 76201Phone: (940) 382-5478
Shares a ministry location with Open Worship.
First United Methodist Church 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 Church
- Pastoral Care
- LGBTQ+ Support
- Community Events
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Latest from FUMC Denton's YouTube channel: Sanctuary Worship | September 13, 2026 (all videos).
The community around First United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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.
- Poverty Rate: 30.7% (22.0–39.3%)
- Depression: 27.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.0% (12.3–25.7%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.8%
- Unemployment: 6.9% (2.6–11.2%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Denton city is served by 73 churches — about one congregation for every 1,782 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Open Worship — 0 mi away
- Ministerio Hispano Jesus Fuente de Vida — 0.1 mi away
- Ultimate Life Church — 0.1 mi away
- Deliverance Temple of Praise Church - DTOP — 0.2 mi away
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- North Point Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christ Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- Freedom Church Denton — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Andrew Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Praise Tabernacle Worship Center — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Mount Pilgrim C.M.E. Church — 0.3 mi away
- Methodist Student Center (MSC) — 1.1 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 2.5 mi away
- Asbury United Methodist Church — 2.9 mi away
- Cooper Creek United Methodist Church — 3.3 mi away