First Nazarene Church
First Nazarene Church is a church in Ottawa, IL 61350. It is one of 42 churches in Ottawa.
Ottawa, IL, 61350Shares a ministry location with Crossbridge Community Church- Ottawa Campus.
First Nazarene Church is part of the Wesleyan-Holiness family of churches in The American Church Story. 204 congregations of the Wesleyan-Holiness family gather across Illinois — 4,599 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Wesleyan-Holiness churches have insisted that God does not merely forgive people, he changes them — and they took that straight to the poorest streets they could find. The Salvation Army's kettles and soup lines, a century of rescue missions, and an early and costly record of ordaining women all came out of this family.
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The community around First Nazarene 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 about 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. 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: 40.3%
- Social Isolation: 34.2%
- Unemployment: 8.8% (3.6–14.1%)
- Child Poverty: 25.5% (15.1–35.9%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.9%
- Depression: 23.8%
- Food Insecurity: 18.7%
- Poverty Rate: 16.7% (10.9–22.6%)
- Diabetes: 14.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Ottawa city is served by 26 churches — about one congregation for every 569 residents.
Churches near First Nazarene Church
- Crossbridge Community Church- Ottawa Campus — 0 mi away
- Harvest Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Praise Center Assembly of God — 1.2 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Saint Columba Roman Catholic Church — 2.2 mi away
- Christ Episcopal Church — 2.3 mi away
- Open Table United Church of Christ — 2.3 mi away
- First Congregational Church — 2.3 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 2.4 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 2.4 mi away
More Wesleyan-Holiness churches nearby
- Crossbridge Community Church — 3.8 mi away
- South Side Church of the Nazarene — 3.8 mi away
- Church of the Nazarene — 8.7 mi away in Marseilles, IL
- Family Church of the Nazarene — 12.9 mi away in Sheridan, IL
- Church of the Nazarene — 15.7 mi away in Peru, IL