First Methodist Church
First Methodist Church is a church in Charleston, IL 61920. It is one of 48 churches in Charleston.
Charleston, IL, 61920First 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 Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.
- Child Poverty: 67.6%
- Poverty Rate: 38.7%
- Social Isolation: 37.5%
- Food Insecurity: 22.6%
- Obesity: 39.8%
- Depression: 26.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.1%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Charleston city is served by 16 churches — about one congregation for every 675 residents.
Churches near First Methodist Church
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Charles Borromeo Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Crossroads Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Pilgrim Holiness Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- First United Brethren Church — 0.3 mi away
- North Side Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Apostolic Church — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Otterbein United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- New Hope Worship Center — 0.8 mi away
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Faith United Methodist Church — 10.7 mi away in Mattoon, IL
- Free Methodist Church — 10.9 mi away in Mattoon, IL
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