First United Methodist Church

First United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 1202 S 3rd St in Merkel, TX 79536-4923. It is one of 16 churches in Merkel.

Merkel First United Methodist Church is located at South 3rd and Locust in Merkel,Texas.

1202 S 3rd St, Merkel, TX, 79536-4923

Service times

  • Sunday 9:45am · School

Phone: (325) 928-5333 · Website: https://merkelumc.wordpress.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

  • Clothing Outlet

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The community around First United Methodist Church

In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.

  • Obesity: 37.2%
  • Depression: 24.7%
  • Child Poverty: 24.4% (13.2–35.6%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.9%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.8%
  • Diabetes: 13.8%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

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