John Huss United Methodist Church
John Huss United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 2356 South Sawyer Avenue in Chicago, IL 60623. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 27 United Methodist congregations in the city.
2356 South Sawyer Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60623John Huss 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 John Huss United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,900 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: 85.3%
- Food Insecurity: 52.9%
- Poverty Rate: 45.7% (31.1–60.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 39.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 38.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 28.7% (20.6–36.9%)
- Transportation Barriers: 23.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.6%
- Diabetes: 18.9%
- Obesity: 41.7%
- Social Isolation: 38.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Chicago city is served by 1,693 churches — about one congregation for every 1,580 residents.
Churches near John Huss United Methodist Church
- Saint Ludmillas Roman Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Templo Espiritual Kabbalah — 0.2 mi away
- First Peaceful Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Kingsword International Church — 0.3 mi away
- Our Lady of Tepeyac Parish — 0.3 mi away
- Mother of the Americas Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Holly Springs Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Manantial De Vida — 0.4 mi away
- Prayer Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Village Gospel Center — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- New Bethel Temple United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Carey Tercentenary African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.9 mi away
- Lena A Hamlett Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.2 mi away
- Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.3 mi away
- Lincoln United Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away