Thornton United Methodist Church
Thornton United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 712 Chicago Rd in Thornton, IL 60476. It is one of 4 churches in Thornton.
Services in Spanish and Portuguese and Korean
712 Chicago Rd, Thornton, IL, 60476Phone: (615) 742-5427 · Website: http://umc.org
Thornton United Methodist Church 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 Thornton United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Unemployment: 15.2% (5.1–25.2%)
- Social Isolation: 35.3%
- Food Insecurity: 20.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.2%
- Child Poverty: 22.7% (5.2–40.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.6%
- Diabetes: 14.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.9%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Thornton United Methodist Church
- St Paul Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Paul Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away
- River Oaks Community Church — 0.7 mi away in South Holland, IL
- Village Free Church — 0.8 mi away in South Holland, IL
- Holy Ghost Catholic Church — 0.9 mi away in South Holland, IL
- Reconciliation Church — 1.1 mi away in South Holland, IL
- Peace Christian Reformed Church — 1.1 mi away in South Holland, IL
- Christ Community Church — 1.2 mi away in South Holland, IL
- Faith Reformed Church — 1.2 mi away in South Holland, IL
- Redeemer Lutheran Church — 1.2 mi away in South Holland, IL
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- First United Methodist Church — 3.7 mi away in Lansing, IL
- Ivanhoe United Methodist Church — 3.9 mi away in Riverdale, IL
- Hazel Crest Community United Methodist Church — 4 mi away in Hazel Crest, IL