First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church in Midland, TX 79701. It is one of 201 churches in Midland, and one of 2 United Methodist congregations in the city.
Midland, TX, 79701First 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.
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The community around First United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of working-age adults live without health insurance, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 31.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 21.7% (12.9–30.5%)
- Obesity: 40.5%
- Diabetes: 16.1%
- Poverty Rate: 19.9% (11.7–28.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Midland city is served by 100 churches — about one congregation for every 1,141 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- God's Rainbow Promises Fellowship Church — 0.2 mi away
- Amistad Cristiana — 0.4 mi away
- Aqui Se Reune La Iglesia De Cristo — 0.5 mi away
- Latin Free Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Downtown Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Real Church Midland — 0.6 mi away
- North "A" Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Renew Life Church Midland — 0.6 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Hollowell Community United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Latin Free Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Hollowell Community United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Asbury United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- St. Mark's United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Saint Luke's United Methodist Church — 2.2 mi away