First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 610 Bonus Avenue in Belvidere, IL 61008. It is one of 33 churches in Belvidere.
610 Bonus Avenue, Belvidere, IL, 61008Service times
- Sunday 9am
Phone: (815) 544-3479 · Website: https://fumcbelvidere.org/
Shares a ministry location with Iglesia Esperanza Y Vida UMC.
First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,033 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Illinois — 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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Latest from First United Methodist Church of Belvidere's YouTube channel: Sunday September 20th Worship (all videos).
The community around First United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 48.5% (33.3–63.8%)
- Food Insecurity: 25.3%
- Obesity: 40.6%
- Social Isolation: 35.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.2%
- Poverty Rate: 24.6% (15.0–34.2%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.1%
- Depression: 23.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.5%
- Diabetes: 13.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.9%
- Unemployment: 7.2% (1.2–13.3%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Belvidere city is served by 17 churches — about one congregation for every 1,224 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Iglesia Esperanza Y Vida UMC — 0 mi away
- Grace Point Community Church — 0.4 mi away
- Kingdom Hall — 0.6 mi away
- St John's United Church of Christ — 0.8 mi away
- Saint Johns Evangelical Church — 0.8 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.8 mi away
- Church of the Holy Trinity — 0.9 mi away
- Evangelical Covenant Church — 0.9 mi away
- Belvidere Seventh-Day Adventist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Mission Covenant Church — 0.9 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Cherry Valley United Methodist Church — 6.6 mi away in Cherry Valley, IL
- Poplar Grove United Methodist Church — 6.9 mi away in Poplar Grove, IL
- Grace United Methodist Church — 8 mi away in Rockford, IL
- Pine Grove Free Methodist Church — 8.3 mi away in Loves Park, IL
- Our Masters United Methodist Church — 8.9 mi away in Rockford, IL
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