First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 335 South Fair Street in Olney, IL 62450. It is one of 37 churches in Olney.
335 South Fair Street, Olney, IL, 62450Service times
- Sunday 10am · School Classes then Worship
Phone: (618) 395-1500 · Website: https://olneyfirstmc.church/
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.
Ministries at First United Methodist Church
- Wednesday Evening Feed Your Faith
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The community around First United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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: 40.1%
- Social Isolation: 33.3%
- Depression: 24.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.3%
- Food Insecurity: 15.3%
- Unemployment: 6.9% (1.4–12.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Olney city is served by 21 churches — about one congregation for every 430 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Albans Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Free Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Quad-Parish Partnership — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Joseph Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Elm Street Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Silver Street Pentecostal Church — 0.5 mi away
- The Revival Center Olney — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Free Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Immanuel United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Saint Paul United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Noble United Methodist Church — 7.9 mi away in Noble, IL
- Union Chapel United Methodist Church — 14.4 mi away in Sumner, IL