First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 202 West Stevenson Avenue in Hale Center, TX 79041. It is one of 7 churches in Hale Center.
202 West Stevenson Avenue, Hale Center, TX, 79041First United Methodist Church 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.
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The community around First United Methodist Church
It takes 7.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 working-age adults live without health insurance, and about 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 27.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 21.9% (14.3–29.5%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.6%
- Diabetes: 16.0%
- Obesity: 37.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- First Baptist Church Hale Center — 0.2 mi away
- Western Heritage Fellowship Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Church of God of the Firstborn — 0.3 mi away
- JCBC HC — 0.6 mi away
- St. Theresa Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
- Mayfield Church — 7 mi away
- Giantslayersym — 8.8 mi away in Plainview, TX
- Trinity Fellowship Church — 8.9 mi away in Plainview, TX
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 9.4 mi away in Plainview, TX
- Trinity Life Church — 9.5 mi away in Plainview, TX
More Methodist churches nearby
- Grace United Methodist Church — 10.5 mi away in Plainview, TX
- First United Methodist Church — 11.3 mi away in Plainview, TX
- Plainview District United Methodist Church — 11.3 mi away in Plainview, TX
- San Juan United Methodist Church — 11.7 mi away in Plainview, TX
- First United Methodist Church — 19.8 mi away in Petersburg, TX