First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a church in Benton, IL 62812. It is one of 37 churches in Benton.
Benton, IL, 62812Service times
- Sunday 8:15am · MorningWe have three worship services mornings An
- Sunday 10am · besides Worship Services Yes we have Schools that meet
First United 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 First United Methodist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and about 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 the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 41.0%
- Social Isolation: 33.5%
- Depression: 23.8%
- Child Poverty: 23.6% (8.2–39.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.3%
- Poverty Rate: 19.5% (12.7–26.3%)
- Food Insecurity: 17.2%
- Diabetes: 13.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- First Baptist Church of Benton — 0.1 mi away
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 0.1 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Joseph Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Sabbath Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Benton Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- West City First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away in West City, IL
- Immanuel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- OutBreak Student Ministry — 0.5 mi away
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- First United Methodist Church — 9.5 mi away in Sesser, IL