First Southern Methodist Church of Port Arthur

First Southern Methodist Church of Port Arthur is a Methodist church in Port Arthur, TX 77642. It is one of 137 churches in Port Arthur, and one of 7 Methodist congregations in the city.

Port Arthur, TX, 77642

First Southern Methodist Church of Port Arthur 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 Southern Methodist Church of Port Arthur

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of the people here live without health insurance, and more than a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.

  • Obesity: 46.7%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 37.3% (26.4–48.1%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.0%
  • Poverty Rate: 31.7% (17.3–46.1%)
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 31.4%
  • Diabetes: 20.1%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Port Arthur city is served by 75 churches — about one congregation for every 741 residents.

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