First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Elizabeth, IL 61028. It is one of 8 churches in Elizabeth.
With God’s help, we will transform ourselves and our community through acts of unconditional love, the pursuit of justice, and a commitment to dignity and compassion for all.
We are a progressive, Christ-centered church focused on loving boldly and building hope through worship, education, service and social justice.
Elizabeth, IL, 61028First 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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Latest from FUMCannarbor's YouTube channel: FUMC Ann Arbor Worship Service - September 13, 2026 (all videos).
The community around First United Methodist Church
It takes 5.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of adults say they are socially isolated. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Obesity: 36.8%
- Social Isolation: 29.6%
- Diabetes: 14.0%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Church of Saint Mary — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Faith Lutheran Church — 0.8 mi away
- Grace Bible Church of Woodbine — 4 mi away
- Grace Bible Church — 4 mi away in Stockton, IL
- St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church — 5.1 mi away in Hanover, IL
- St. Paul's Lutheran Church — 5.2 mi away in Hanover, IL
- Hanover United Methodist Church — 5.3 mi away in Hanover, IL
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 5.3 mi away
- Holy Trinity Church — 5.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Calvary United Methodist Church — 11 mi away in Stockton, IL
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 11.2 mi away in Stockton, IL
- Scales Mound United Methodist Church — 11.3 mi away in Scales Mound, IL
- United Methodist Church — 12.8 mi away in Galena, IL
- Willow United Methodist Church — 14 mi away in Stockton, IL
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