First United Methodist Church

First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Chester, WV 26034. It is one of 9 churches in Chester.

Chester, WV, 26034

First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 687 congregations of the Methodist family gather across West Virginia — 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 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 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 healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.

  • Obesity: 46.3%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.2%
  • Social Isolation: 35.1%
  • Depression: 29.7%
  • Poverty Rate: 27.6% (17.9–37.3%)
  • Food Insecurity: 24.7%
  • Diabetes: 17.7%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.1%
  • Housing Insecurity: 16.9%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.8% (4.6–18.9%)
  • Unemployment: 7.5% (2.1–13.0%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

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