Fernwood United Methodist Church
Fernwood United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 10047 South Wallace Street in Chicago, IL 60628. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 27 United Methodist congregations in the city.
10047 South Wallace Street, Chicago, IL, 60628Fernwood 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 Fernwood United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is 2,300 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.
- Food Insecurity: 30.5%
- Obesity: 40.3%
- Social Isolation: 38.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.3%
- Poverty Rate: 25.6% (15.7–35.5%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.7%
- Diabetes: 18.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.7%
- Unemployment: 9.6% (1.9–17.3%)
- Transportation Barriers: 14.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Chicago city is served by 1,693 churches — about one congregation for every 1,580 residents.
Churches near Fernwood United Methodist Church
- Victory Worship Cathedral — 0.1 mi away
- St. Helena of the Cross Parish — 0.1 mi away
- Victory Center Campus — 0.1 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Twelve Gates Miracle Temple Church of God & Christ — 0.2 mi away
- House of God — 0.2 mi away
- Prayers Warriors Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- True Holiness Pentecostal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Gods House of Holiness in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Tabernacle of Faith GGG Church of Holiness — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint Matthew-Gordon African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 1 mi away
- Allen Metropolitan Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.1 mi away
- Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.2 mi away
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Gresham United Methodist Church — 1.7 mi away