First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Pontiac, IL 61764. It is one of 28 churches in Pontiac, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
Pontiac, IL, 61764First 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 have no one they feel they can count on. 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: 34.3%
- Obesity: 36.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.8%
- Food Insecurity: 15.2%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Pontiac city is served by 14 churches — about one congregation for every 247 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Saint Marys Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- First United Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- United Pentecostal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Pontiac Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of the Nazarene — 0.3 mi away
- First Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Central Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Sacred Heart Church — 0.5 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- McDowell Methodist Church — 4.2 mi away
- Cornell United Methodist Church — 9.5 mi away in Cornell, IL
- United Methodist Church of Odell — 10.1 mi away in Odell, IL
- Chenoa United Methodist Church — 10.6 mi away in Chenoa, IL
- First United Methodist Church — 11 mi away in Fairbury, IL