Free Methodist Church of Sterling
Free Methodist Church of Sterling is a Methodist church in Sterling, IL 61081. It is one of 42 churches in Sterling, and one of 5 Methodist congregations in the city.
Sterling, IL, 61081Free Methodist Church of Sterling is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,029 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Illinois — 25,370 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 Free Methodist Church of Sterling
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 describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 33.1%
- Obesity: 37.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.2%
- Food Insecurity: 17.7%
- Diabetes: 13.1%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Sterling city is served by 28 churches — about one congregation for every 505 residents.
Churches near Free Methodist Church of Sterling
- City of God — 0.3 mi away
- Messiah Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Spanish Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Living Bread Fellowship — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Marys Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Grace Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Tabernacle Christian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Johns Lutheran Church — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Rock Falls United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away in Rock Falls, IL
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 1.7 mi away
- East Jordan United Methodist Church — 7.9 mi away