Grace United Protestant Church
Grace United Protestant Church is a United Methodist church at 266 Somonauk Street, Park Forest, IL, 60466-2241 in Park Forest, IL 60466. It is one of 28 churches in Park Forest.
We believe one of the best ways we can do that is by supporting missions here in our community, in our country, and across the world.
Part of Northern Illinois Conference's Lake South District
266 Somonauk Street, Park Forest, IL, 60466-2241, Park Forest, IL, 60466Service times
- Sunday 11am
Phone: (708) 748-4567 · Website: http://www.graceupc.org/
Grace United Protestant 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 Grace United Protestant Church
- Church World Service
- Heifer International
- Kids Above All
- Jones Community Center
- Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest
- Rich Township Food Pantry
- Respond Now
- South Suburban PADS
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The community around Grace United Protestant Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. About 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 28.9%
- Unemployment: 13.7% (6.7–20.7%)
- Social Isolation: 37.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.9%
- Obesity: 39.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.1%
- Poverty Rate: 18.0% (9.7–26.3%)
- Diabetes: 14.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Park Forest village is served by 12 churches — about one congregation for every 1,319 residents.
Churches near Grace United Protestant Church
- Celebration Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Hope Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- The Word Worship Center — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Mary's Church — 0.6 mi away
- Garden Of Peace Ministries — 0.8 mi away
- New Community Church — 0.8 mi away
- Church of the Holy Family — 0.9 mi away
- Christian Science Society of Park Forest — 0.9 mi away
- Calvary Chapel of Blue Island — 0.9 mi away
- Saint Paul's - Good Shepherd Church — 1 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint John United Methodist Church of Christ — 2.9 mi away in Chicago Heights, IL
- Olympia Fields United Methodist Church — 3.6 mi away in Olympia Fields, IL
- Crete United Methodist Church — 3.9 mi away in Crete, IL
- Baker Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 4.5 mi away in Chicago Heights, IL
- Korean United Methodist Church — 4.6 mi away in Flossmoor, IL
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