First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 1224 Legion Way Southeast in Olympia, WA 98501. It is one of 94 churches in Olympia, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
Part of Reconciling Ministries Network
1224 Legion Way Southeast, Olympia, WA, 98501Service times
- Sunday 10am · Worship In-person Streamed Online
- Sunday 9am
- Thursday 10am
First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 234 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Washington — 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.
Ministries at First United Methodist Church
- Refugee Sponsorship
- Anti-Racist Film Club
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Watch
Latest from First UMC Olympia's YouTube channel: Sermon from Signposts (August 2, 2026) | The Journey Begins (all videos).
The community around First United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 adults here carry depression. About 1 in 5 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 lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Depression: 29.4%
- Poverty Rate: 17.0% (11.9–22.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Olympia city is served by 32 churches — about one congregation for every 1,674 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- The Salvation Army Worship Center — 0.2 mi away
- Reality Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Beginnings Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- New Bridge Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- St. Michael's Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Harbor Church — 0.3 mi away
- Capital Christian Center — 0.3 mi away
- Olympia Metro Church — 0.4 mi away
- Harvest Life Christian Center — 0.4 mi away
- Rivers of Grace — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Tumwater Methodist Church — 2.3 mi away in Tumwater, WA
- Tumwater United Methodist Church — 3.3 mi away in Tumwater, WA
- Littlerock United Methodist — 11.7 mi away
- United Methodist Church — 15 mi away in Yelm, WA
- Shelton United Methodist Church — 16.4 mi away in Shelton, WA
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