First United Methodist Church

First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Herrin, IL 62948. It is one of 28 churches in Herrin, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.

Herrin, IL, 62948

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 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 43.2%
  • Social Isolation: 35.2%
  • Poverty Rate: 22.8% (14.2–31.5%)
  • Food Insecurity: 20.1%
  • Child Poverty: 28.4% (12.0–44.8%)
  • Depression: 25.7%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.5%
  • Diabetes: 13.7%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.2%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Herrin city is served by 20 churches — about one congregation for every 529 residents.

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