First United Methodist Church

First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Town of Pecos, TX 79772. It is one of 13 churches in Town of Pecos.

Town of Pecos, TX, 79772

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

Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of working-age adults live without health insurance, and more than 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: 38.5%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.2%
  • Diabetes: 20.7%
  • Obesity: 42.0%
  • Poverty Rate: 26.8% (12.4–41.2%)
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.8% (4.8–22.7%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Town of Pecos city is served by 15 churches — about one congregation for every 686 residents.

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