First United Methodist Church

First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 301 South 4th Street in Watseka, IL 60970. It is one of 13 churches in Watseka.

301 South 4th Street, Watseka, IL, 60970

First 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 First United Methodist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third 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 households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.

  • Child Poverty: 46.7% (31.4–62.0%)
  • Obesity: 45.9%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.9%
  • Food Insecurity: 26.9%
  • Diabetes: 18.2%
  • Social Isolation: 35.6%
  • Poverty Rate: 27.4%
  • Unemployment: 8.5% (3.5–13.5%)
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.7%
  • Depression: 25.1%
  • Housing Insecurity: 17.6%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.7%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Watseka city is served by 1 churches — about one congregation for every 3,102 residents.

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