First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Elkins, WV 26241. It is one of 36 churches in Elkins, and one of 3 Methodist congregations in the city.
Elkins, WV, 26241Phone: (304) 636-0660 · Website: http://fumcelkinswv.org/
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 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. 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 healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 45.0%
- Depression: 33.4%
- Social Isolation: 37.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.3%
- Unemployment: 9.3% (3.6–14.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 18.5%
- Poverty Rate: 16.2% (10.9–21.4%)
- Diabetes: 14.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Elkins city is served by 14 churches — about one congregation for every 259 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- The Refinery Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Brendan Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Davis Memorial Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Woodford Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Centerbranch Church Elkins — 0.2 mi away
- John Street Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Woodford Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Otterbein United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Community Elkins — 0.9 mi away
- Coffman Methodist Episcopal Church — 5.4 mi away in Belington, WV
- Beverly United Methodist Church — 5.9 mi away in Beverly, WV
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