First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church in Elgin, IL 60120. It is one of 116 churches in Elgin, and one of 3 United Methodist congregations in the city.
Elgin, IL, 60120First 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 First United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly a quarter of working-age adults live without health insurance. That is 2,200 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: 30.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.7%
- Obesity: 41.4%
- Social Isolation: 36.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.1% (11.1–21.1%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.0%
- Unemployment: 8.7% (4.4–13.0%)
- Child Poverty: 27.3% (10.9–43.6%)
- Poverty Rate: 17.3% (9.3–25.3%)
- Transportation Barriers: 14.3%
- Diabetes: 13.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Elgin city is served by 46 churches — about one congregation for every 1,854 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Church of the Redeemer — 0 mi away
- Vineyard Church — 0 mi away
- Iglesia Carismatica Puerta de Sion — 0.1 mi away
- St. John's Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- St. Joseph Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Congregational Church UCC — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia de Dios 7o Dia — 0.1 mi away
- Forest City Church — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia Principe De Paz — 0.2 mi away
- Agape Iglesia Adventista Del Septimo Dia — 0.2 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First Universalist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- El Mesias United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Journey of Hope — 3.2 mi away
- Epworth Church — 3.2 mi away