Ionia First United Methodist Church
Ionia First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Ionia, MI 48846. It is one of 21 churches in Ionia.
Ionia, MI, 48846Ionia First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 819 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Michigan — 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 Ionia First United 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 nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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: 42.1%
- Social Isolation: 34.8%
- Depression: 29.4%
- Child Poverty: 24.4% (9.5–39.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.5%
- Food Insecurity: 18.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.9% (7.5–16.3%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Ionia city is served by 3 churches — about one congregation for every 2,811 residents.
Churches near Ionia First United Methodist Church
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- The Well Church — 0.1 mi away
- St John the Apostle — 0.1 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Restore Church — 0.3 mi away
- Zion Church of Ionia — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Peter — 0.4 mi away
- Revival Church Ionia County — 0.5 mi away
- Lincoln Avenue Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- St. John's Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Le Valley United Methodist Church — 3.8 mi away
- Berlin Center United Methodist — 6.7 mi away in Berlin Twp, MI
- Orleans Bible Church — 7 mi away in Orleans, MI
- Center Street Free Methodist Church — 11.3 mi away in Belding, MI
- Portland United Methodist Church — 11.4 mi away in Portland, MI