First United Methodist Church

First United Methodist Church is a church at 171 W Main St in Independence, VA 24348-4002. It is one of 23 churches in Independence.

171 W Main St, Independence, VA, 24348-4002

Phone: +12767733099 · Website: https://www.fumcgalax.org/home/

First 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

It takes 4.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.

  • Obesity: 42.3%
  • Social Isolation: 34.6%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.4%
  • Food Insecurity: 20.3%
  • Diabetes: 17.0%
  • Depression: 24.0%
  • Poverty Rate: 16.7% (11.0–22.4%)
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.6%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

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