Laurel United Methodist Church
Laurel United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 631 South Grand Avenue West in Springfield, IL 62704. It is one of 164 churches in Springfield, and one of 5 Methodist congregations in the city.
Laurel’s mission is to respond to God’s love by sharing generously, accepting others, enjoying one another and God, seeking spiritual growth, and caring for others.
Laurel was founded on the beliefs of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, who taught believers to actualize their faith in community, because actions speak louder than words.
Fully accessible · Part of Illinois Great Rivers Conference
631 South Grand Avenue West, Springfield, IL, 62704Service times
- Sunday 8:30am
Phone: (217) 525-1866 · Website: https://www.laurelumchurch.org/
Laurel 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 Laurel United Methodist Church's YouTube channel: Laurel United Methodist Church: September 13, 2026 Online Worship (all videos).
The community around Laurel United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 5 the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,300 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: 41.6%
- Social Isolation: 34.9%
- Poverty Rate: 17.9% (10.1–25.7%)
- Food Insecurity: 17.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Springfield city is served by 69 churches — about one congregation for every 1,462 residents.
Churches near Laurel United Methodist Church
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Anthony Greek Orthodox Church — 0.3 mi away
- Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Springfield Christians — 0.6 mi away
- Order of Christ the Saviour — 0.6 mi away
- Cathedral Church of St Paul — 0.6 mi away
- Westminister Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away
- First United Pentecostal Church — 0.8 mi away
- Douglas Avenue United Methodist — 0.8 mi away
- Restoration Church — 0.9 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Douglas Avenue United Methodist — 0.8 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Asbury United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Kumler United Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Knox Knolls Free Methodist Church — 1.7 mi away
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