First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Carthage, IL 62321. It is one of 12 churches in Carthage.
Carthage, IL, 62321First 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
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 31.6%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Carthage city is served by 6 churches — about one congregation for every 444 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- First United Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Immaculate Conception Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Church — 0.6 mi away
- Smyrna Primitive Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away in Bentley, IL
- Middle Creek Church — 5.6 mi away
- Immanuel Church — 5.8 mi away
- Elvaston Community Church — 5.9 mi away in Elvaston, IL
More Methodist churches nearby
- Emmanuel United Methodist Church — 13.4 mi away in Keokuk, IA
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 13.6 mi away in Keokuk, IA
- Hills Grove United Methodist Church — 13.6 mi away
- Sandusky United Methodist Church — 13.6 mi away in Keokuk, IA
- Friendship United Methodist Church — 13.9 mi away in Blandinsville, IL