First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 1717 Pioneer Ave in Wharton, TX 77488. It is one of 44 churches in Wharton.
1717 Pioneer Ave, Wharton, TX, 77488Service times
- Sunday 9:30am · School
Phone: (979) 532-1100 · Website: https://www.whartonfumc.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.
Ministries at First United Methodist Church
- Youth Ministries
- Children's Ministries
- Family Ministries
- Small Blessings Child Care Center
- RISE! Youth
- Young Adults
- Adult Sunday School
- Women's Ministries
- United Methodist Women
- Mom to Mom
- Music Ministries
- Chancel Choir
Find First United Methodist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around First United Methodist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. 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 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 28.0% (17.2–38.9%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 23.2%
- Obesity: 42.7%
- Diabetes: 17.8%
- Poverty Rate: 18.9% (9.5–28.4%)
- Unemployment: 7.3% (1.3–13.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Peace Tabernacle United — 0.3 mi away
- St. Thomas' Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Faith Church — 0.5 mi away
- Abundant Life Christian Fellowship Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Johns Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.7 mi away
- College Heights Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Abell Street Church of Christ — 0.8 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.8 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Wharton — 0.8 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Newman Chapel United Methodist Church — 10.1 mi away in Kendleton, TX
- St Mark Ame Church — 11.1 mi away in Needville, TX
- First United Methodist Church — 14.1 mi away in East Bernard, TX
- First Methodist Church — 14.7 mi away in El Campo, TX
- Needville United Methodist Church — 15.7 mi away in Needville, TX