First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a church at 88 Howard St in Welch, WV 24801-2442. It is one of 17 churches in Welch.
Services in Spanish and Portuguese and Korean
88 Howard St, Welch, WV, 24801-2442Phone: +13044364330 · Website: http://www.umc.org
First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around First United Methodist Church
It takes 3.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third describe their own health as fair or poor. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Obesity: 48.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.6%
- Poverty Rate: 32.4% (20.6–44.1%)
- Food Insecurity: 32.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.7%
- Diabetes: 20.4%
- Social Isolation: 37.2%
- Depression: 29.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.8%
- Child Poverty: 24.7% (5.1–44.3%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.0% (4.8–17.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Saint Peter Catholic Church — 0 mi away
- Reclamation church — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Calvary Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Living Hope Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint James Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Court Street Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Anderson Memorial Presbyterian Chapel — 0.7 mi away