First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church in Winchester, VA 22601. It is one of 132 churches in Winchester, and one of 3 United Methodist congregations in the city.
Guided by our mission of being On the Move for Christ, we seek to meet people where they are - both within our walls and out in the community - by building meaningful relationships, meeting community needs, and living out our faith in everyday life.
First Church is a welcoming faith community rooted in love, connection, and service.
Winchester, VA, 22601Service times
- Sunday 10am
- Monday 10am
- Tuesday 10am
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
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,200 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: 53.8% (36.5–71.1%)
- Poverty Rate: 32.9% (24.2–41.6%)
- Food Insecurity: 25.2%
- Obesity: 41.1%
- Social Isolation: 35.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.4%
- Diabetes: 15.7%
- Depression: 25.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.4%
- Unemployment: 7.6% (2.5–12.7%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Winchester city is served by 24 churches — about one congregation for every 1,170 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- The Gathering Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mosaic Church — 0.2 mi away
- St Paul AME Church — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Christ Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Another Chance Church — 0.3 mi away
- Braddock Street United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Living Faith Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church Sanctuary — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Braddock Street United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Market Street United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- John Mann United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Montague Avenue UMC — 1.1 mi away
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