First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 805 East Denman Avenue in Lufkin, TX 75901. It is one of 125 churches in Lufkin, and one of 3 Methodist congregations in the city.
For over 150 years, First United Methodist Church - Lufkin has impacted almost five full generations of not just Methodists, but the entire Lufkin area.
Serving since 1882
805 East Denman Avenue, Lufkin, TX, 75901Service times
- Sunday 10am
Phone: (936) 639-3141 · Website: https://www.lufkinfirst.com/
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
- Children's Ministry
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Latest from FUMC Lufkin on Vimeo: 2026Sep13 (all videos).
The community around First United Methodist Church
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. 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 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 26.3%
- Diabetes: 18.2%
- Obesity: 44.8%
- Child Poverty: 30.7% (15.2–46.3%)
- Poverty Rate: 24.2% (14.5–33.9%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.5% (12.4–26.5%)
- Unemployment: 10.1% (2.1–18.1%)
- Depression: 23.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Lufkin city is served by 17 churches — about one congregation for every 2,018 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Iglesia Cristiana Victoria Asamblea de Dios — 0.4 mi away
- The Foundry Assembly of God — 0.4 mi away
- Iglesia La Vina — 0.5 mi away
- Timberland Drive Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Covenant Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Harbor Light Church — 0.6 mi away
- Our Father's House of Faith — 0.7 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.7 mi away
- Hillcrest Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Church At Lufkin — 1.7 mi away
- Lufkin Family Worship Center — 2 mi away
- St Paul's United Methodist Church — 2.1 mi away
- Abundant Life United Methodist Church — 2.6 mi away
- Christ Congregational Church — 2.6 mi away