First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Hopewell, VA 23860. It is one of 45 churches in Hopewell.
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Hopewell, VA, 23860First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 956 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Virginia — 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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Obesity: 48.1%
- Food Insecurity: 33.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.7%
- Poverty Rate: 32.5% (21.1–44.0%)
- Diabetes: 19.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.8%
- Social Isolation: 38.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.3%
- Unemployment: 11.2% (2.7–19.7%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.4%
- Depression: 25.7%
- Child Poverty: 23.7% (7.8–39.7%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Hopewell city is served by 32 churches — about one congregation for every 720 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Saint James Roman Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Seventh Avenue Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- SMI LIFE Worship Center & Bible Institute — 0.1 mi away
- Second Coming International Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Elpis Greek Orthodox Church — 0.1 mi away in Hopewell City, VA
- Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away in Hopewell City, VA
- First Congregational Christian Church — 0.2 mi away in Hopewell City, VA
- First Christian Church — 0.2 mi away in Hopewell City, VA
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away in Hopewell City, VA
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away in Hopewell City, VA
More Methodist churches nearby
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Bermuda Hundred United Methodist Church — 2.4 mi away in Chester, VA
- Bermuda Hundred United Methodist Church — 2.8 mi away in Chester, VA
- Gregory Memorial Chapel — 5.5 mi away in Prince George, VA
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 5.8 mi away in Colonial Heights, VA