Pekin First United Methodist Church
Pekin First United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 1315 Court Street in Pekin, IL 61554. It is one of 45 churches in Pekin.
OUR MISSION IS TO MAKE NEW DISCIPLES OF JESUS CHRIST FOR THE TRANSFORMATION OF PEKIN AND THE WORLD.
1315 Court Street, Pekin, IL, 61554Service times
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 9am
Website: https://www.pekinfirst.org/
Pekin First 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 Pekin First United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is 2,100 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: 34.1%
- Unemployment: 9.0% (3.1–14.9%)
- Obesity: 37.8%
- Depression: 24.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Pekin city is served by 31 churches — about one congregation for every 912 residents.
Churches near Pekin First United Methodist Church
- Grace Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Johns Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Paul United Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Newlife Fellowship Derby ST — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Joseph Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
- Gethsemane Church — 0.8 mi away
- Emmanuel Community Church — 0.8 mi away
- 2nd Reformed Church in Pekin — 0.8 mi away
- Central Life Church — 0.8 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Grace United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Bartonville United Methodist Church — 6 mi away in Bartonville, IL
- Faith United Methodist Church — 6.3 mi away in East Peoria, IL
- Free Methodist Church — 7.1 mi away in East Peoria, IL
- Grace United Methodist Church — 7.5 mi away in Peoria, IL