First Church of God

First Church of God is a Methodist church at 2600 S Banker St in Effingham, IL 62401-2901. It is one of 31 churches in Effingham, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.

2600 S Banker St, Effingham, IL, 62401-2901

Phone: +12173423640 · Website: https://www.effinghamfirstcog.org/

First Church of God 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.

Ministries at First Church of God

  • Bible Study

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The community around First Church of God

In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is two thousand 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: 32.8%
  • Child Poverty: 25.0% (9.7–40.3%)
  • Depression: 23.1%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

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