United Methodist Church of Girard
United Methodist Church of Girard is a Methodist church in Girard, IL 62640. It is one of 9 churches in Girard.
Girard, IL, 62640United Methodist Church of Girard 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 United Methodist Church of Girard
It takes 3.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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.
- Social Isolation: 32.6%
- Obesity: 38.0%
- Child Poverty: 25.7% (10.4–41.5%)
- Depression: 23.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.4%
- Poverty Rate: 16.9% (9.3–24.5%)
- Food Insecurity: 15.4%
- Diabetes: 13.9%
- Unemployment: 7.0% (1.9–12.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near United Methodist Church of Girard
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- St Patrick's Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- New House of Prayer Church — 1.6 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 2.2 mi away
- Countryview Christian Church — 2.3 mi away in Virden, IL
- Grace Southern Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away in Virden, IL
- First Methodist Episcopal Church — 3.7 mi away in Virden, IL
- Boston Chapel Christian Church — 3.7 mi away
- Church of the Brethren — 3.8 mi away in Virden, IL
More Methodist churches nearby
- First Methodist Episcopal Church — 3.7 mi away in Virden, IL
- United Methodist Church of Auburn — 10.3 mi away in Auburn, IL
- Auburn United Methodist Church — 10.3 mi away in Auburn, IL
- Divernon United Methodist Church — 10.4 mi away in Divernon, IL
- Carlinville United Methodist Church — 12.7 mi away in Carlinville, IL