First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Chester, IL 62233. It is one of 11 churches in Chester.
Chester, IL, 62233First 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 adults say they are socially isolated. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 34.3%
- Obesity: 39.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.1%
- Poverty Rate: 18.5% (9.7–27.3%)
- Food Insecurity: 16.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Mary Help of Christians Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Peace Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Johns Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Apostolic Pentecostal Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.8 mi away
- Grace Church Ministries — 1.2 mi away
- Church of Our Lady — 1.3 mi away in Perryville, MO
- Saint Mary Church of Divine Maternity — 5.5 mi away in Ellis Grove, IL
More Methodist churches nearby
- Steeleville United Methodist Church — 11.1 mi away in Steeleville, IL
- Perryville Global Methodist Church — 12.8 mi away in Perryville, MO
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 13.3 mi away in Percy, IL
- First United Methodist Church — 16.2 mi away in Sparta, IL
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 16.3 mi away in Sparta, IL