Free Methodist Church
Free Methodist Church is a church in Mount Vernon, IL 62864. It is one of 57 churches in Mount Vernon.
Mount Vernon, IL, 62864Free 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 Free Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 47.3%
- Child Poverty: 45.0% (27.2–62.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 31.5%
- Unemployment: 13.2% (5.9–20.4%)
- Social Isolation: 38.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.8%
- Poverty Rate: 29.9% (20.0–39.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.7%
- Diabetes: 15.2%
- Depression: 24.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Mount Vernon city is served by 39 churches — about one congregation for every 277 residents.
Churches near Free Methodist Church
- Logan Street Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Sugar Camp Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away in Mt Vernon, IL
- Community of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Lively Stone Apostolic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Vernon Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Christian Fellowship Church — 0.5 mi away in Mt Vernon, IL
- Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Blackwell Temple African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Mary's Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Blackwell Temple African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.5 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Epworth United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- West Salem Trinity United Methodist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 1.8 mi away
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