First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 322 Lamar Ave. in Paris, TX 75460. It is one of 115 churches in Paris, and one of 3 Methodist congregations in the city.
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322 Lamar Ave., Paris, TX, 75460Service times
- Sunday 10am · Mornings
- Sunday 11:15am · Mornings
Phone: (903) 785-4557 · Website: http://www.firstmethodistparis.org/
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.
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Latest from FUMC Paris's YouTube channel: 9/6/2026 Sunday Morning Service (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. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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.
- Child Poverty: 45.3% (28.0–62.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.2%
- Poverty Rate: 32.4% (22.4–42.5%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 25.0% (18.0–31.9%)
- Diabetes: 18.1%
- Obesity: 44.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.5%
- Depression: 26.1%
- Unemployment: 6.2% (1.7–11.2%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Paris city is served by 65 churches — about one congregation for every 306 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Trumpet Magazine — 0.1 mi away
- Central Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of the Holy Cross — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Carmel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Johnson Chapel Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Paul Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Hospitality Cogic — 0.4 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Olive Branch Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Mount Zion Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Oak Park United Methodist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Calvary United Methodist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Blossom United Methodist Church — 9.8 mi away in Blossom, TX
- United Methodist Church — 15.7 mi away