First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 516 Church Street in Evanston, IL 60201. It is one of 82 churches in Evanston, and one of 5 Methodist congregations in the city.
516 Church Street, Evanston, IL, 60201Website: http://www.faithatfirst.com/
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.
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The community around First United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Poverty Rate: 31.9% (23.4–40.3%)
- Social Isolation: 36.3%
- Unemployment: 11.6% (4.1–19.0%)
- Food Insecurity: 15.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Evanston city is served by 46 churches — about one congregation for every 1,592 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- First Congregational Church — 0.2 mi away
- Alice Millar Chapel — 0.2 mi away
- The Church of Christ the King — 0.2 mi away
- Vail Chapel — 0.2 mi away
- Lake Street Church of Evanston — 0.3 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Immanuel Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint James Armenian Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Emmanuel United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Hemenway United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1 mi away
- New Hope Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.3 mi away