First United Methodist Church

First United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 201 North Water Avenue in Sonora, TX 76950. It is one of 10 churches in Sonora.

Our purpose is to be a means of grace to our members and our community.

Part of Sonora Ministerial Alliance

201 North Water Avenue, Sonora, TX, 76950

First United Methodist Church 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

It takes 17.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 working-age adults live without health insurance, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance. A scattered parish is still a parish.

Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.

  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 25.7%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.6%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.0% (12.5–25.4%)
  • Diabetes: 17.6%
  • Obesity: 38.5%

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

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