First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Sparta, IL 62286. It is one of 28 churches in Sparta, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
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Sparta, IL, 62286Service times
Saturdays at 5pm; Sundays at 10:30am; Thursday starting July 9 in the Gathering Room, with sessions at 9:00am and 6:30pm (as listed)
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.
Ministries at First United Methodist Church
- Dinner Church
- Back to School Looking Cool
- Yoga
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The community around First United Methodist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 41.1%
- Social Isolation: 34.1%
- Unemployment: 10.2% (4.2–16.1%)
- Child Poverty: 29.5% (12.4–46.5%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.7%
- Poverty Rate: 18.9% (11.1–26.8%)
- Food Insecurity: 18.6%
- Diabetes: 14.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Sparta city is served by 15 churches — about one congregation for every 270 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Reformed Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Gospel Chapel Hall — 0.1 mi away
- Trinity United Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Landmark Apostolic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Westminster Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Sparta Reformed Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Road To Life Church — 0.4 mi away
- Our Lady of Lourdes Roman Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church of Sparta — 0.6 mi away
- Coulterville United Methodist Church — 6.8 mi away in Coulterville, IL
- Steeleville United Methodist Church — 8.5 mi away in Steeleville, IL
- First United Methodist Church — 8.6 mi away in Marissa, IL