First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a church in Waukegan, IL 60085. It is one of 105 churches in Waukegan.
We actively engage in making disciples, alleviating suffering, and promoting justice and peace.
Waukegan, IL, 60085Service times
- Sunday 10am
- Tuesday 5:30pm–6:30pm
- Sunday 10am · School for ages birth thru 12th grade
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.
Ministries at First United Methodist Church
- Free community meal
- Adult and children's choirs
- Sunday school classes
- Bible studies
- Narcotics Anonymous
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The community around First United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. Nearly a quarter of adults are worried about keeping the housing they have, and nearly a quarter of working-age adults live without health insurance. That is 2,300 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 31.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 24.2%
- Obesity: 41.6%
- Social Isolation: 36.0%
- Child Poverty: 32.1% (15.0–49.2%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.6%
- Diabetes: 15.1%
- Poverty Rate: 20.4% (10.7–30.1%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.5% (8.4–20.5%)
- Transportation Barriers: 14.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.9%
- Unemployment: 7.1% (2.9–11.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Waukegan city is served by 38 churches — about one congregation for every 2,641 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- First Presbyterian Church — 0 mi away
- New Abbey Covenant Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Nikolas Serbian Orthodox Church — 0.1 mi away
- Christian Faith Fellowship Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 0.1 mi away
- New Life Fellowship Church — 0.1 mi away
- Christ Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Congregational Church — 0.1 mi away
- Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Newlife Ministries in Christ Church — 0.2 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Trinity African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.9 mi away
- New Hope United Methodist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Eternal Flame African Methodist Episcopal Church — 2.1 mi away in North Chicago, IL
- Wesley Free Methodist Church — 4 mi away
- York House United Methodist Church — 4 mi away in Beach Park, IL