Free Methodist Church
Free Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Alton, IL 62002. It is one of 71 churches in Alton, and one of 3 Methodist congregations in the city.
Alton, IL, 62002Free Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,029 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Illinois — 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 Free Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, 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: 46.0%
- Food Insecurity: 25.8%
- Social Isolation: 36.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.3%
- Poverty Rate: 26.3% (16.1–36.5%)
- Housing Insecurity: 20.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.7%
- Depression: 24.2%
- Diabetes: 14.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Alton city is served by 41 churches — about one congregation for every 640 residents.
Churches near Free Methodist Church
- Sanford Avenue Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Main Street Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Main Street United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Calvary Southern Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Brown Street Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Liberty Christian Church — 0.5 mi away
- College Avenue Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Upper Alton Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Main Street United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity AME Church — 1.6 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 1.7 mi away
- East Alton First United Methodist Church — 2.9 mi away in East Alton, IL
- St Paul United Methodist Church — 3.7 mi away in East Alton, IL