First United Methodist Church - Odessa
First United Methodist Church - Odessa is a United Methodist church in Odessa, TX 79761. It is one of 210 churches in Odessa, and one of 2 United Methodist congregations in the city.
Odessa, TX, 79761First United Methodist Church - Odessa 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 - Odessa
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 working-age adults live without health insurance. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of the people here live without health insurance. That is 2,200 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.
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 35.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 22.9% (12.7–33.1%)
- Obesity: 41.5%
- Diabetes: 16.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Odessa city is served by 84 churches — about one congregation for every 1,157 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church - Odessa
- First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- 6th and Jackson Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- New Life Chapel — 0.4 mi away
- Impact City Church — 0.4 mi away
- Washington Avenue Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Temple Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Crossroads Downtown Campus — 0.5 mi away
- Life Change Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Odessa First Assembly — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Johnson Chapel A.M.E. Church — 1.3 mi away
- Highland United Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Aldersgate United Metodist Church Of West Odessa — 2.3 mi away
- Asbury United Methodist Church — 2.9 mi away
- Wesley Evangelical Methodist Church — 3.7 mi away