First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 501 Broadway Avenue in Sterling, IL 61081. It is one of 42 churches in Sterling, and one of 5 Methodist congregations in the city.
501 Broadway Avenue, Sterling, IL, 61081First 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 a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Social Isolation: 32.9%
- Poverty Rate: 22.1% (13.5–30.7%)
- Obesity: 38.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.4%
- Food Insecurity: 18.9%
- Diabetes: 13.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Sterling city is served by 28 churches — about one congregation for every 505 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- First Church of the Nazarene of Sterling — 0.2 mi away
- First Open Bible Church — 0.3 mi away
- Abiding Word Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Johns Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Amazing Grace Assembly of Sterling — 0.5 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Congregational Church of Sterling — 0.6 mi away
- The Big Red Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Paul Lutheran Church — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Rock Falls United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away in Rock Falls, IL
- Free Methodist Church of Sterling — 1.2 mi away
- East Jordan United Methodist Church — 7.7 mi away