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Sample rows

10 of the 12,506 rows. Emails and phone numbers are masked here; the CSV has them in full.

What the list shows

Pennsylvania has the most listings: 903 businesses, 632 of them with an email address. Virginia follows with 742.

3,292 rows (26%) carry one of 66 names used by 10 or more listings, led by First United Methodist Church with 765. 6,861 businesses have a name used only once, and 4,566 of those have an email address.

The median Google rating of the 11,482 rated businesses is 4.7, and 2,903 have a perfect 5.0.

Of the 8,754 email addresses, 3,977 (45%) are role addresses such as info@, 2,415 (28%) name a person and 2,362 (27%) are free mail.

Source: ProfessionLens, November 2026.

What is in this United Methodist church email list?

This United Methodist list covers 12,506 Google Maps listings in the United Methodist church category, counted on 9 November 2026. A row is a congregation, from a village church with a part-time pastor to a large suburban church with a full staff, a church with a day school, or a Hispanic or Korean ministry that meets in a shared building.

There are 8,754 email addresses in the file, each found on the church's own website, one per church. Phone numbers appear on 10,727 rows. A website is listed on 8,182, which is about two rows in three. That is a higher website share than the plain Methodist church list, so more rows can be researched before you write.

Every row has the same category value, United Methodist church.

How can you segment the file?

United Methodist congregations are grouped in districts and annual conferences, and each state holds one or more conferences. The state and city columns are the closest the file gets, and a vendor who works with a conference can match its territory to a list of states.

Church names repeat a great deal. United Methodist Church has 343 rows and 88 emails, Trinity United Methodist Church 242 and 220, Grace United Methodist Church 147 and 62, and Wesley United Methodist Church 105 and 216. They are different churches, so dedupe on website domain. Only 6,861 rows have a name that appears once.

Among the 8,754 addresses, 3,977 are role addresses, 2,415 are named-person and 2,362 are on free mail providers. Many United Methodist churches have a church administrator or secretary, so an office@ address typically reaches the person who handles correspondence for the pastor and the councils.

Rows with a website and a staff page are your best candidates for a personal message, because the page lists a pastor, a youth director and often a treasurer by name.

• Geography: filter state and city to match an annual conference.
• Dedupe: use website domain, since church names repeat.
• Email type: role for the church office, named-person for staff.
• Website column: about two in three rows have one.

Who buys a United Methodist church email list?

Companies that serve mainline congregations buy it. Curriculum, hymnal and worship planning publishers sell resources to the education and music staff. Church software vendors sell membership and finance systems to administrators. Insurance and construction firms pitch property committees, and energy audit firms and solar installers pitch the trustees of older buildings.

Because United Methodist churches pay a share of their income to the conference, finance consultants and stewardship campaign firms sell help with annual giving drives. Clergy-focused vendors sell retirement planning, continuing education and sabbatical programs. Camps, retreat centers and mission trip organizers recruit youth groups. Nonprofits that run food, housing and disaster relief programs ask churches for volunteers and gifts. Preschools and day schools housed in church buildings buy supplies and software.

How do you run outreach to United Methodist churches?

A United Methodist church works through committees. The pastor leads worship and pastoral care, a church council oversees programs, trustees look after the building, and a finance committee handles money. A purchase of any size normally passes through one of those groups, so your first note should help the reader take it to the right committee.

Say which role you hope to reach: pastor, treasurer, trustee chair, church administrator or director of music. A role address like office@ usually goes to the administrator, who forwards by topic. Free mail addresses often belong to a part-time pastor or a lay volunteer and should get a simple, short message.

Pastors are appointed by a bishop and may move to another church after a few years, which shortens the life of a named-person address. Prefer role addresses for a campaign that will run over months.

Timing follows the church year. Advent and Lent are busy, as are the weeks before the annual conference meeting. Late winter and late summer give more room for a budget conversation. Dedupe the list on website domain, and check for churches that share a building and a mailbox.

What email rules apply when you contact United Methodist churches?

Two points govern a commercial email to a church: print your business's real postal address in the message and make the opt-out work. A church administrator who asks you to stop should be removed from all future mailings.

Which states and cities should you start with?

Pennsylvania has the most United Methodist listings, 903, with 632 emails. Virginia has 742 and 519, and Texas has 731 listings and 512 emails, the best yield among the leading states. North Carolina has 683 and 76, Ohio 651 and 41, New York 608 and 426, Illinois 531 and 372, Tennessee 469 and 47, South Carolina 459 and 426, and California 454 and 47.

Houston is the top city with 54 listings, ahead of Chicago (45), Philadelphia (36), Atlanta (35), Columbus (35), Knoxville (35), Nashville (33), Indianapolis (31), Baltimore (31) and Washington DC (28).

Counts by city are low because most United Methodist churches sit in towns, so state-level work is the practical approach. Texas and North Carolina give the most emails per listing among the big states, and California and Tennessee come next.

What is in the list

Source: ProfessionLens, November 2026. Counted 9 November 2026.

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Source: ProfessionLens, November 2026. Counted 9 November 2026.

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