First United Methodist Church of Lamarque
First United Methodist Church of Lamarque is a Methodist church in La Marque, TX 77568. It is one of 31 churches in La Marque, and one of 3 Methodist congregations in the city.
La Marque, TX, 77568First United Methodist Church of Lamarque 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 of Lamarque
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 describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of working-age adults live without health insurance. That is 2,200 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 21.2% (12.5–29.9%)
- Obesity: 41.4%
- Diabetes: 17.5%
- Poverty Rate: 21.0% (8.9–33.1%)
- Unemployment: 7.8% (1.2–14.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
La Marque city is served by 13 churches — about one congregation for every 1,210 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church of Lamarque
- Neighborhood Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- St Michaels Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- True Living Word Christian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Family Unity Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Life Church of Texas — 0.6 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Queen of Peace Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Baptist Church of La Marque — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- McKinney Memorial United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Wilbur United Methodist Church — 2.3 mi away in Hitchcock, TX
- First United Methodist Church — 3.3 mi away in Hitchcock, TX
- Galilee United Methodist Church — 4.1 mi away in Texas City, TX