Urbana First United Methodist Church
Urbana First United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 304 South Race Street in Urbana, IL 61801. It is one of 64 churches in Urbana, and one of 2 United Methodist congregations in the city.
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304 South Race Street, Urbana, IL, 61801Service times
- Sunday 10:30am
Phone: (217) 367-8384 · Website: https://www.urbanafirstmethodist.org/
Urbana First 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.
Ministries at Urbana First United Methodist Church
- Youth Mission Trip
- Eastern Illinois Food Bank
- Angel House Orphanage and School - Africa
- CRU Inner City Ministries
- The Baby Fold
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The community around Urbana First United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than 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.
- Poverty Rate: 35.6% (26.6–44.6%)
- Social Isolation: 36.8%
- Food Insecurity: 16.4%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Urbana city is served by 26 churches — about one congregation for every 1,027 residents.
Churches near Urbana First United Methodist Church
- Church of Christ — 0 mi away
- New Life Church of Faith — 0 mi away
- All Souls Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Redeemer Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- EmcChurch — 0.1 mi away
- Unitarian Universalist Church of Urbana Champaign — 0.2 mi away
- Canaan Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- FIrst Wesleyan Church of Urbana — 0.3 mi away
- Rising Hope Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.4 mi away in Champaign, IL
- Quest Church — 1.5 mi away
- First United Methodist — 2.1 mi away in Champaign, IL
- Faith United Methodist Church — 2.9 mi away in Champaign, IL