First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 306 W Center St in Galax, VA 24333-2806. It is one of 63 churches in Galax, and one of 5 United Methodist congregations in the city.
306 W Center St, Galax, VA, 24333-2806Service times
- Sunday 10am
Phone: (276) 233-7841 · Website: https://www.fumcgalax.org/
Shares a ministry location with Church of the Good Shepherd.
First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 970 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Virginia — 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
- Children's Ministry
- Kid Junction
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The community around First United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter 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 lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 34.2%
- Child Poverty: 30.4% (15.0–45.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.0%
- Poverty Rate: 23.7% (16.0–31.4%)
- Food Insecurity: 20.7%
- Diabetes: 17.6%
- Obesity: 39.1%
- Depression: 26.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Church of the Good Shepherd — 0 mi away
- Galax Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Landmark Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Rock Worship Center — 0.3 mi away
- Cornerstone Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Pisgah Church — 0.9 mi away
- West Galax Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Faith Temple — 1 mi away
- Endless Possibilities Church — 1.1 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- West Galax Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- First Apostlic Church FAC — 1.4 mi away
- Gladeville Church — 2.8 mi away
- Mount Vale Methodist Church — 3.6 mi away
- Mt Olivet United Methodist Church — 5.2 mi away