First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at South 2nd Street in Oconee, IL 62553. It is one of 3 churches in Oconee.
South 2nd Street, Oconee, IL, 62553First 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 First United Methodist Church
It takes 5.2 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, and about 1 in 5 describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 33.1%
- Obesity: 38.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.8%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Oconee Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Sacred Heart Church — 0.4 mi away
- Hopewell Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away in Pana, IL
- Shiloh Church — 3.4 mi away in Nokomis, IL
- Center Community Church — 4.4 mi away in Herrick, IL
- Oak Valley Church — 4.9 mi away in Ramsey, IL
- New Bethel Church — 6.8 mi away in Ramsey, IL
- United In Faith Church — 6.8 mi away in Pana, IL
- West New Hope Church — 6.9 mi away in Tower Hill, IL
- First United Methodist Church — 6.9 mi away in Pana, IL
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church — 6.9 mi away in Pana, IL
- Free Methodist Church — 7.2 mi away in Pana, IL
- First Methodist Church — 9.6 mi away in Nokomis, IL
- South Fork United Methodist Church — 10 mi away in Nokomis, IL
- Tower Hill United Methodist Church — 10.7 mi away in Tower Hill, IL