First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a church in Marion, IL 62959. It is one of 73 churches in Marion.
Marion, IL, 62959Service times
- Sunday 9:30am
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 9am
First United Methodist Church 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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Latest from Marion First UMC's YouTube channel: August 2, 2026 - Sunday Service (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. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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 healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 43.3%
- Child Poverty: 38.1% (23.8–53.7%)
- Social Isolation: 35.1%
- Poverty Rate: 26.0% (17.2–34.7%)
- Food Insecurity: 20.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.0%
- Depression: 24.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.4%
- Diabetes: 14.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.6%
- Unemployment: 7.8% (2.7–13.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Marion city is served by 29 churches — about one congregation for every 359 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- high point church — 0 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 0.2 mi away
- Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Community Chapel Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint James Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Warder Street Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Zion United Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Aldersgate United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Cedar Grove United Methodist Church — 2.3 mi away
- First United Methodist Church of Johnston City — 5.9 mi away in Johnston City, IL
- Energy United Methodist Church — 6.2 mi away in Energy, IL