Polo United Methodist Church
Polo United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Polo, IL 61064. It is one of 16 churches in Polo, and one of 3 Methodist congregations in the city.
Polo, IL, 61064Polo 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 Polo United Methodist Church
It takes 4.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Obesity: 42.3%
- Social Isolation: 31.6%
- Child Poverty: 22.9% (7.4–38.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.0%
- Diabetes: 13.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Polo United Methodist Church
- First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Marks Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- St Mary Roman Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Marys Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Polo Church of the Brethren — 0.2 mi away
- Open Bible Church — 0.2 mi away
- St Mary Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Crossroads Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Emmanuel United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Emmanuel United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Brookville Grace United Methodist Church — 6.7 mi away
- East Jordan United Methodist Church — 6.8 mi away in Sterling, IL
- Disciples United Methodist Church — 8.3 mi away in Mount Morris, IL
- Bethel Church — 9.9 mi away in Dixon, IL