First United Methodist Church of Johnston City
First United Methodist Church of Johnston City is a United Methodist church in Johnston City, IL 62951. It is one of 16 churches in Johnston City.
Services in Spanish and Portuguese and Korean
Johnston City, IL, 62951Phone: (615) 742-5400 · Website: http://www.umc.org/
First United Methodist Church of Johnston City 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 of Johnston City
In the few miles around this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand 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.
- Obesity: 40.5%
- Social Isolation: 32.8%
- Child Poverty: 27.4% (8.1–46.8%)
- Depression: 23.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Johnston City city is served by 7 churches — about one congregation for every 713 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church of Johnston City
- Washington Avenue Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Johnston City — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Pauls Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church of God of Prophecy — 0.4 mi away
- JCity Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Family Worship Center — 0.5 mi away
- Johnston City United Pentecostal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Gospel Mission Church — 1.1 mi away
- Evangelical Church — 1.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Cedar Grove United Methodist Church — 3.6 mi away in Marion, IL
- Herrin Free Methodist Church — 5.2 mi away in Herrin, IL
- Aldersgate United Methodist Church — 5.3 mi away in Marion, IL
- First United Methodist Church — 5.4 mi away in Herrin, IL
- First United Methodist Church — 5.6 mi away in West Frankfort, IL
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