Third United Methodist Church
Third United Methodist Church is a church in Decatur, IL 62521. It is one of 165 churches in Decatur.
Decatur, IL, 62521Third 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 Third United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. More than half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of 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 households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 61.8% (44.3–79.3%)
- Obesity: 56.3%
- Food Insecurity: 48.3%
- Social Isolation: 40.9%
- Poverty Rate: 40.4% (25.8–55.0%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 35.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 28.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 24.4%
- Diabetes: 20.8%
- Unemployment: 14.9% (4.8–25.0%)
- Depression: 23.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.0%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Decatur city is served by 57 churches — about one congregation for every 932 residents.
Churches near Third United Methodist Church
- Central Illinois Christians In Missions — 0.1 mi away
- New Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Life Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- The Missionary Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Johns Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Illinois Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship — 0.3 mi away
- New Beginnings Apostolic Church of Decatur — 0.3 mi away
- Love Fellowship Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Jasper Street Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Grace United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Saint Pauls Methodist Episcopal Church — 1 mi away
- Central United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Free Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away