Julia Gay Memorial United Methodist Church
Julia Gay Memorial United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 1701 West Garfield Boulevard in Chicago, IL 60636. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 27 United Methodist congregations in the city.
1701 West Garfield Boulevard, Chicago, IL, 60636Shares a ministry location with Canaan Community Church.
Julia Gay Memorial 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 Julia Gay Memorial United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third have no one they feel they can count on. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 46.1%
- Social Isolation: 40.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 35.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.5%
- Diabetes: 18.5%
- Obesity: 43.2%
- Poverty Rate: 25.4% (12.3–38.5%)
- Transportation Barriers: 21.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.4% (9.1–27.7%)
- Unemployment: 10.8% (2.4–19.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Chicago city is served by 1,693 churches — about one congregation for every 1,580 residents.
Churches near Julia Gay Memorial United Methodist Church
- Canaan Community Church — 0 mi away
- First St. Peter M.B Church of Chicago — 0.1 mi away
- Holy Angels Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Kingdom of Christ Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of Christ With Elijah — 0.3 mi away
- Christ Temple Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Spirit of Faith M B Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Friendship International Ministry — 0.4 mi away
- Maranatha Temple Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Pentecostal Church of God — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Mount Carmel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 1 mi away
- Greater Saint John African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1 mi away
- Christ United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
- West Englewood United Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Union Avenue United Methodist Church — 1.9 mi away