First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church in Dixon, IL 61021. It is one of 38 churches in Dixon.
Our vision is to see our community, nation, and the world grow together into a loving relationship with God and our neighbor.
Welcome to Dixon First! This year, we’re embracing a powerful theme that comes from 1 Samuel 3:10 “Speak Lord for your servant is listening.” It is an invitation to slow down, to pause, to open your heart, mind and soul to the voice of God.
Dixon, IL, 61021Service times
- Sunday 10am · School
Phone: (815) 284-2849 · Website: http://www.fumcdixon.org/
First 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.
Ministries at First United Methodist Church
- Meals on Wheels
- Adult Sunday School
- Martha Circle
- Matters of the Heart
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Latest from Dixon - First UMC's YouTube channel: Sunday, September 13, 2026 Worship (all videos).
The community around First United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 41.6%
- Social Isolation: 33.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.0%
- Depression: 23.4%
- Poverty Rate: 20.1% (12.5–27.7%)
- Food Insecurity: 19.5%
- Diabetes: 13.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Dixon city is served by 15 churches — about one congregation for every 1,030 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Saint Luke Episcopal Church — 0 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0 mi away
- Dixon Christian Science Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Living Well Church of the Nazarene — 0.2 mi away
- New Life Church of Dixon — 0.3 mi away
- St Patrick's Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Grace United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Bethel Church — 1.2 mi away
- Harmon United Methodist Church — 9 mi away in Harmon, IL
- Franklin Grove United Methodist Church — 9.4 mi away in Franklin Grove, IL
- East Jordan United Methodist Church — 9.5 mi away in Sterling, IL