First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 52 S. Florida St. in Buckhannon, WV 26201. It is one of 62 churches in Buckhannon, and one of 4 United Methodist congregations in the city.
The mission of First Church United Methodist is to grow disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of Buckhannon, the surrounding areas, and the world.
52 S. Florida St., Buckhannon, WV, 26201Service times
- Sunday 10:35am
Phone: (304) 460-2553 · Website: http://www.firstchurchum.com/
First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 689 congregations of the Methodist family gather across West 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 about a mile of this church, more than 2 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 more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 32.5%
- Social Isolation: 38.1%
- Poverty Rate: 24.1% (13.3–34.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.6%
- Food Insecurity: 16.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.6%
- Unemployment: 7.7% (1.8–13.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Buckhannon city is served by 15 churches — about one congregation for every 216 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- First Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Central Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Chapel Hill United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- North Central Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration — 0.2 mi away
- First United Brethren Church — 0.3 mi away
- Brushstroke Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Gateway Gathering of Buckhannon — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Central Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Chapel Hill United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- Chapel Hill United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- West Buckhannon Methodist Church — 1 mi away
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