First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Westmont, IL 60559. It is one of 12 churches in Westmont.
Westmont, IL, 60559First 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 a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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.
- Child Poverty: 30.7% (11.8–49.8%)
- Social Isolation: 31.4%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Westmont village is served by 7 churches — about one congregation for every 2,410 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Bethel Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Westmont Alliance Church — 0.1 mi away
- The Commons — 0.1 mi away
- Peace of Christ Community Church — 0.1 mi away
- Renew Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Pentecostal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of Jesus Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Holy Trinity Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- West Hills Community Church — 0.8 mi away
- Westmont Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Faith United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away in Downers Grove, IL
- First United Methodist Church — 1.8 mi away in Downers Grove, IL
- Hinsdale United Methodist Church — 2.7 mi away in Hinsdale, IL
- Saint Thomas United Methodist Church — 4.7 mi away in Glen Ellyn, IL
- Woodridge United Methodist Church — 4.9 mi away in Woodridge, IL