First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a church in Decatur, IL 62522. It is one of 165 churches in Decatur.
Decatur, IL, 62522First 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 First United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 adults live with obesity. 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 two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 50.4%
- Social Isolation: 41.0%
- Food Insecurity: 38.2%
- Poverty Rate: 38.2% (24.6–51.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 28.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.9%
- Unemployment: 17.2% (6.8–27.6%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.1%
- Diabetes: 15.4%
- Depression: 24.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Decatur city is served by 57 churches — about one congregation for every 932 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Central United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- St John's Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Free Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church — 0.2 mi away
- Renaissance — 0.2 mi away
- Salvation Army Citadel — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 0.2 mi away
- New Salem Baptist — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Central United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Free Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity CME Church — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Pauls Methodist Episcopal Church — 1 mi away