First United Methodist Church

First United Methodist Church is a church in Bridgeport, IL 62417. It is one of 11 churches in Bridgeport.

Bridgeport, IL, 62417

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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The community around First United Methodist Church

In the few miles around this church, about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. 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 households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.

  • Unemployment: 12.2% (6.1–18.4%)
  • Obesity: 42.4%
  • Social Isolation: 33.8%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.3%
  • Food Insecurity: 20.1%
  • Diabetes: 15.2%
  • Depression: 24.2%
  • Poverty Rate: 20.0% (11.6–28.4%)
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.1%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Bridgeport city is served by 5 churches — about one congregation for every 493 residents.

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