West Englewood United Methodist Church
West Englewood United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 2000-2006 West 68th Street in Chicago, IL 60636. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 27 United Methodist congregations in the city.
2000-2006 West 68th Street, Chicago, IL, 60636West Englewood 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 West Englewood United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,300 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.
- Food Insecurity: 51.0%
- Obesity: 46.3%
- Social Isolation: 41.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 38.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.3%
- Poverty Rate: 33.4% (18.4–48.4%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 27.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 24.1%
- Diabetes: 21.6%
- Unemployment: 13.0% (6.0–20.0%)
- Child Poverty: 39.4% (20.9–57.9%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.2% (7.8–24.6%)
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.
Churches near West Englewood United Methodist Church
- Saving Grace Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Salem Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New St. Paul C.O.G.I.C. Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Mt Calvary M B Church — 0.2 mi away
- Golgotha Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Family Focus Christian Center — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Justin Martyr Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Peoples Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- God's House of Divine Revelation Church — 0.3 mi away
- Community Vinegard Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Mount Carmel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.1 mi away
- Greater Saint John African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.2 mi away
- Christ United Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Grace-Calvary United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Julia Gay Memorial United Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away