First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 41880 East Morgan Avenue in Pennington Gap, VA 24277. It is one of 21 churches in Pennington Gap.
41880 East Morgan Avenue, Pennington Gap, VA, 24277Phone: (276) 546-1080 · Website: https://www.holston.org/hosted-church/2692395
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.
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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 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 80.5%
- Obesity: 47.1%
- Poverty Rate: 43.3% (28.6–58.0%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.3%
- Food Insecurity: 31.4%
- Diabetes: 21.1%
- Social Isolation: 35.1%
- Depression: 27.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 20.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.0%
- Unemployment: 7.8% (1.9–13.8%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- First Baptist Church of Pennington Gap — 0.1 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Wells Chapel Church — 0.2 mi away
- Pennington Gap Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Beech Hill Church — 0.4 mi away
- Belcher Chapel — 1 mi away
- Smith Chapel — 1.3 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Ely Memorial Church — 1.9 mi away in Dryden, VA
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint Charles Methodist Church — 3.7 mi away
- First Methodist Church — 6.7 mi away in Jonesville, VA
- Seminary United Methodist Church — 11.2 mi away in Big Stone Gap, VA
- Flatwoods Church — 13.8 mi away in Jonesville, VA
- Benham United Methodist Church — 14.6 mi away in Benham, KY
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