Joppa UMC
Joppa UMC is a Methodist church at 130 Church Street in Joppa, IL 62953.
130 Church Street, Joppa, IL, 62953Joppa UMC 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 Joppa UMC
It takes 4.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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.
- Obesity: 41.1%
- Social Isolation: 32.5%
- Depression: 25.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.6%
- Diabetes: 14.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.9% (4.6–19.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Joppa UMC
- Joppa Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away in Jopppa, IL
- Cumberland Church — 2.2 mi away in Metropolis, IL
- Mount Hebron Church — 2.5 mi away in Metropolis, IL
- Oak Grove Cumberland Presbyterian Church — 2.9 mi away in Metropolis, IL
- Hillerman Baptist Church — 3 mi away in Grand Chain, IL
- Newtons Creek Church — 3.6 mi away in Kevil, KY
- Newton Creek Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away in Kevil, KY
- Macedonia Church — 3.8 mi away in Metropolis, IL
- New Liberty Church — 3.9 mi away in Kevil, KY
- Mount Mission Church — 4.8 mi away in Metropolis, IL
More Methodist churches nearby
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- Concord United Methodist Church — 12.3 mi away in Paducah, KY
- Brookport United Methodist Church — 13 mi away in Brookport, IL
- Bay Valley United Methodist Church — 13.3 mi away in Golconda, IL