First Methodist Church
First Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Vandalia, IL 62471. It is one of 25 churches in Vandalia, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
Vandalia, IL, 62471First 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 First Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 5 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 41.7%
- Social Isolation: 35.4%
- Food Insecurity: 20.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.1%
- Poverty Rate: 21.9% (14.1–29.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 16.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.4% (4.9–17.9%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.7%
- Unemployment: 6.6% (3.6–9.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Vandalia city is served by 8 churches — about one congregation for every 553 residents.
Churches near First Methodist Church
- Free Methodist Church — 0 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mother of Dolors Roman Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Family Worship Center — 0.3 mi away
- Saint James Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Our Sorrowful Mother's Ministry — 0.3 mi away
- Pentecostal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Holy Cross Lutheran Church — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Free Methodist Church — 0 mi away
- Brownstown United Methodist Church — 7.9 mi away in Brownstown, IL
- First United Methodist Church — 13.9 mi away in Saint Elmo, IL
- Greenville Free Methodist Church — 15.9 mi away in Greenville, IL
- St. Paul’s Free Methodist Church — 17.2 mi away in Greenville, IL