First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 201 South Monroe Street in Streator, IL 61364. It is one of 22 churches in Streator.
201 South Monroe Street, Streator, IL, 61364First 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 about a mile of this church, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 61.2% (45.0–77.4%)
- Obesity: 40.8%
- Social Isolation: 35.7%
- Poverty Rate: 23.9% (15.9–32.0%)
- Food Insecurity: 20.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.7%
- Depression: 24.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.4%
- Diabetes: 13.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.1%
- Unemployment: 6.9% (1.0–12.8%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Streator city is served by 10 churches — about one congregation for every 1,012 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- New Beginnings Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Christ Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- St Michael The Archangel Church — 0.2 mi away
- Park Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Anthony's Church — 0.3 mi away
- Freedom Christian Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Old St. Stephen the King Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Church of the Open Bible — 0.5 mi away
- Church of the Open Bible — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Blackstone United Methodist Church — 7.7 mi away
- Grand Ridge United Methodist Church — 8 mi away in Grand Ridge, IL
- St. Paul's Lutheran Church — 9.5 mi away in Tonica, IL
- United Methodist Church — 9.7 mi away in Ransom, IL
- Cornell United Methodist Church — 10.2 mi away in Cornell, IL