First United Methodist Church

First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Bennington, VT 05201. It is one of 21 churches in Bennington.

Bennington, VT, 05201

First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 72 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Vermont — 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. About a third of adults here carry depression, and about 1 in 7 the people here live below the poverty line. 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.

  • Depression: 31.5%
  • Poverty Rate: 16.5% (10.0–23.0%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

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