Oakford United Methodist Church
Oakford United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Oakford, IL 62673.
Oakford, IL, 62673Oakford 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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The community around Oakford United Methodist Church
It takes 6.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Social Isolation: 32.0%
- Obesity: 38.7%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Oakford United Methodist Church
- Atterberry Community Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away in Petersburg, IL
- New Hope Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away in Petersburg, IL
- Kilbourne Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away in Kilbourne, IL
- Mount Olive Church — 5.3 mi away in Chandlerville, IL
- New Lebanon Church — 5.7 mi away
- Mt. Olive Baptist Church Chandlerville — 6.1 mi away in Chandlerville, IL
- Mount Zion Church — 6.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 8.6 mi away in Petersburg, IL
- Saint Paul's Evangelical Free Church — 8.7 mi away in Petersburg, IL
- Petersburg Foursquare Church — 8.7 mi away in Petersburg, IL
More Methodist churches nearby
- Petersburg United Methodist Church — 8.7 mi away in Petersburg, IL
- First United Methodist Church — 14.5 mi away in Havana, IL
- Ashland United Methodist Church — 15 mi away in Ashland, IL
- Mason City United Methodist Church — 15.7 mi away in Mason City, IL
- Athens United Methodist Church — 16 mi away in Athens, IL