First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 1001 Juliana St in Parkersburg, WV 26101. It is one of 120 churches in Parkersburg, and one of 6 United Methodist congregations in the city.
Our core commitment is to love and care for our neighbors, meeting their physical, social, and spiritual needs with hospitality, affection and service.
First United Methodist Church of Parkersburg is a community of faith built on a foundation of deep tradition looking forward to a visionary future.
1001 Juliana St, Parkersburg, WV, 26101Service times
- Sunday 10:45am · July 5th
Phone: (304) 428-0111 · Website: https://firstumcparkersburg.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 about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,200 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: 47.9%
- Depression: 35.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.5%
- Social Isolation: 35.0%
- Child Poverty: 33.6% (21.7–46.4%)
- Poverty Rate: 26.8% (18.6–35.0%)
- Food Insecurity: 24.5%
- Diabetes: 17.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.2%
- Unemployment: 11.9% (6.1–17.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 17.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Parkersburg city is served by 62 churches — about one congregation for every 506 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- St. Patrick's Anglican Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Pauls United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Calvary Temple Evangelical Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Zion Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Logan Memorial United Methodist — 0.3 mi away
- Downtown Bethel House of God — 0.3 mi away
- High On Hope Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint Pauls United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Logan Memorial United Methodist — 0.3 mi away
- Bethany United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Christ United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
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