First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a church at 1133 Main Street in Mount Vernon, IL 62864. It is one of 57 churches in Mount Vernon.
1133 Main Street, Mount Vernon, IL, 62864Phone: (618) 242-1030 · Website: https://www.mountvernonfirst.org/
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 about a mile of this church, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third 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 the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 61.5%
- Obesity: 48.0%
- Poverty Rate: 35.2% (24.2–46.2%)
- Food Insecurity: 34.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.4%
- Unemployment: 13.1% (7.2–19.1%)
- Social Isolation: 38.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.5%
- Diabetes: 15.5%
- Depression: 24.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Mount Vernon city is served by 39 churches — about one congregation for every 277 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Mt.Vernon Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.1 mi away in Mt Vernon, IL
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Freewill Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Kingdom Seed Ministries — 0.2 mi away in Mt Vernon, IL
- Gateway Church — 0.2 mi away in Mt Vernon, IL
- Saint Mary's Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Antioch International Assembly — 0.2 mi away
- Central Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Lively Stone Apostolic Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Blackwell Temple African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.4 mi away
- Epworth United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Free Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away
- West Salem Trinity United Methodist Church — 2 mi away
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