First United Methodist Church

First United Methodist Church is a church in Paris, IL 61944. It is one of 33 churches in Paris.

Paris, IL, 61944

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.

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The community around First United Methodist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.

  • Social Isolation: 33.2%
  • Obesity: 38.0%
  • Child Poverty: 24.5% (7.0–42.0%)
  • Depression: 23.6%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.0%
  • Food Insecurity: 16.4%
  • Diabetes: 13.7%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Paris city is served by 7 churches — about one congregation for every 772 residents.

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