Kelly United Methodist Church

Kelly United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 6955 South Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Drive in Chicago, IL 60619. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 27 United Methodist congregations in the city.

Our vision is to be a faithful, joyful, growing Christian community demonstrating deep spirituality, a passion for justice and making disciples.

6955 South Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Drive, Chicago, IL, 60619

Service times

Sunday (also via tele-conference); Church school 9:30am (as listed)

Kelly 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 Kelly 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 a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third 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.

  • Social Isolation: 40.8%
  • Food Insecurity: 38.8%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.5%
  • Housing Insecurity: 31.2%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.2%
  • Unemployment: 14.7% (5.4–24.0%)
  • Obesity: 42.9%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.7%
  • Transportation Barriers: 18.4%
  • Diabetes: 17.5%
  • Poverty Rate: 21.5% (11.1–31.9%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Chicago city is served by 1,693 churches — about one congregation for every 1,580 residents.

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