Israel Methodist Community Church
Israel Methodist Community Church is a Methodist church at 7614 South Cottage Grove Avenue in Chicago, IL 60619. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 50 Methodist congregations in the city.
7614 South Cottage Grove Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60619Israel Methodist Community 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 Israel Methodist Community Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,400 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.
- Obesity: 47.1%
- Food Insecurity: 47.0%
- Social Isolation: 40.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 36.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.4%
- Poverty Rate: 33.8% (20.4–47.3%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 27.2%
- Unemployment: 25.3% (15.5–35.1%)
- Transportation Barriers: 22.5%
- Diabetes: 21.6%
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 Israel Methodist Community Church
- The Cov Chicago — 0.1 mi away
- New Covenant MB Church — 0.1 mi away
- St. John Church of God In Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Precious Stone Bible Church — 0.1 mi away
- Vernon Park Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- First Christian Community Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Holy Stranger Home Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Bethel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Ingleside-Whitfield United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Christian Life House Pryr — 0.2 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Ingleside-Whitfield United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Mark African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bray Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Carey A.M.E. Temple — 0.7 mi away
- Black Methodist for Church Renewal — 0.7 mi away