Union Avenue United Methodist Church
Union Avenue United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 4350 South Union Avenue in Chicago, IL 60609. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 50 Methodist congregations in the city.
4350 South Union Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60609Union Avenue 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 Union Avenue United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter have no one they feel they can count on, and about 1 in 5 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 35.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.8%
- Food Insecurity: 19.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.3%
Source: CDC PLACES (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 Union Avenue United Methodist Church
- Saint Gabriel's Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- The Chicago-Salem Church — 0.4 mi away
- Calvary Temple Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- 1st Holy Zion M.B. Church — 0.5 mi away
- Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Wayfaring Church of God in Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Christ Apostolic Triumphant Ministries — 0.7 mi away
- Lily of the Valley Spiritual — 0.8 mi away
- Nativity of Our Lord Catholic Church — 0.8 mi away
- Unity of Love Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint Paul Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.9 mi away
- Bethel AME Church — 1.1 mi away
- Metropolitan Community Church — 1.3 mi away
- Saint Luke United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Blackwell-Israel Samuel A.M.E. Zion Church — 1.8 mi away