First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Princeton, IL 61356. It is one of 25 churches in Princeton.
Our vision is to connect people to faith and each other in joy, love and fellowship.
Accessible parking
Princeton, IL, 61356Service times
- Sunday 9am
- Saturday 5:30pm
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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Latest from First United Methodist Church (Princeton, IL)'s YouTube channel: September 13, 2026 (all videos).
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 about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes. 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: 32.2%
- Obesity: 37.0%
- Diabetes: 13.1%
- Unemployment: 7.7% (2.7–12.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Princeton city is served by 11 churches — about one congregation for every 296 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Hollowayville United Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Open Prairie United Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Hampshire Colony Congregational-United Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Evangelical Covenant Church — 0.3 mi away
- Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Lutheran Church of Princeton — 0.4 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- St Matthews Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Louis Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- United Methodist Church of Wyanet — 6.4 mi away in Wyanet, IL
- Hennepin United Methodist Church — 10.3 mi away in Hennepin, IL
- Red Oak United Methodist Church — 14 mi away in Walnut, IL
- Sheffield United Methodist Church — 14.2 mi away in Sheffield, IL
- Walnut United Methodist Church — 14.4 mi away in Walnut, IL
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