Otterbein United Methodist Church
Otterbein United Methodist Church is a church in Bluford, IL 62814. It is one of 10 churches in Bluford.
Bluford, IL, 62814Otterbein 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 Otterbein United Methodist Church
It takes 4.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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.
- Social Isolation: 33.4%
- Obesity: 39.9%
- Depression: 23.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.5%
- Food Insecurity: 15.6%
- Diabetes: 13.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.3% (7.9–16.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Otterbein United Methodist Church
- First Baptist Church of Bluford — 0.3 mi away
- Bluford Church of God — 0.7 mi away
- Hickory Hill Church — 1.2 mi away
- Mount Olive Church — 2.9 mi away
- Connexion — 3.4 mi away in Mt Vernon, IL
- Oakdale Church — 3.5 mi away
- Salem Church — 3.8 mi away in Wayne City, IL
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witnesses — 4.6 mi away in Mt Vernon, IL
- Liberty Church — 4.8 mi away in Mount Vernon, IL
- Camp Ground Baptist Church — 4.8 mi away in Mount Vernon, IL
More Methodist churches nearby
- Epworth United Methodist Church — 8.1 mi away in Mount Vernon, IL
- Blackwell Temple African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 8.7 mi away in Mount Vernon, IL
- First United Methodist Church — 8.7 mi away in Wayne City, IL
- First United Methodist Church — 8.7 mi away in Mount Vernon, IL
- Union Chapel Unitied Methodist Church — 9 mi away in Texico, IL