First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a church at 503 West Lily Creek Road in Freeport, IL 61032. It is one of 63 churches in Freeport.
Welcome! We are FIrst United Methodist Church of Elgin, IL, or First UMC Elgin for short. As United Methodists, we are committed to a John Wesleyan theology of grace based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
503 West Lily Creek Road, Freeport, IL, 61032Service times
- Sunday 10am · mornings
Phone: (815) 232-6210
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
- Prayer Ministry
- Therapy Dog Ministry
- Monday Morning Quilters
- Prayer Shawl Ministry
- Guys Stuff Men's Group
- Reflections Women's Bible Study
- Monday Night Soup Kettle
- Northern IL Food Bank Volunteer Team
- Good Samaritan Fund
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Watch
Latest from First UMC Elgin on Vimeo: Sunday Service Livestream (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 about 1 in 5 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: 40.9%
- Social Isolation: 32.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.7%
- Food Insecurity: 15.2%
- Diabetes: 14.8%
- Unemployment: 6.2% (0.0–14.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Freeport city is served by 31 churches — about one congregation for every 784 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.1 mi away
- Laurel Street Community Church — 0.9 mi away
- Freeport Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Abundant Life Christian Center — 1.1 mi away
- Prince of Peace Lutheran Church — 1.1 mi away
- Park Hills Evangelical Free church — 1.3 mi away
- Bethany United Church of Christ — 1.3 mi away
- First Church of the Open Bible — 1.4 mi away
- Zion Church — 1.6 mi away
- Grace Episcopal Church — 1.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Harmony United Methodist Church — 1.8 mi away
- First Free Methodist Church — 2.4 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 2.5 mi away
- Embury United Methodist Church — 2.8 mi away