The Elgin District is a geographic area within the
Northern Illinois Annual Conference of the
United Methodist Church
The United Methodist Church (UMC) is a worldwide mainline Protestant denomination based in the United States, and a major part of Methodism. In the 19th century, its main predecessor, the Methodist Episcopal Church, was a leader in evangelical ...
and is led by a
District Superintendent. With its administrative offices located in
Elgin, Illinois
Elgin ( ) is a city in Cook and Kane counties in the northern part of the U.S. state of Illinois. Elgin is located northwest of Chicago, along the Fox River. As of the 2020 Census, the city had a population of 114,797, the seventh-large ...
, the district encompasses both urban and rural congregations, large and small. The current superintendent is Rev. Darneather Murph-Heath.
The district's jurisdiction covers sixty-five local churches, led by seventy-two
elders, deacons and licensed local Pastors. The sixty-five churches include two
federated congregations, three Hispanic congregations and seven Korean congregations ranging in size from 15 to 1,400 members.
The geographic area is fairly large and is broken down into the following by county:
*All of
McHenry County
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Lake County west of
Interstate 94
Interstate 94 (I-94) is an east–west Interstate Highway connecting the Great Lakes and northern Great Plains regions of the United States. Its western terminus is just east of Billings, Montana, at a junction with I-90; its eastern ter ...
, north of and including
Lake Bluff
Lake Bluff is a village in Lake County, Illinois, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 5,616.
History
The first settler family to claim land within the area now part of Lake Bluff arrived in 1836. They claimed 100 acres of ...
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Kane County north of
Illinois Route 64
Illinois Route 64 (IL 64, Illinois 64) is an east–west state highway in Northern Illinois. Its western terminus is at the Iowa state line, connecting with U.S. Route 52 (US 52) and Iowa Highway 64 via the Dale Gardner Veterans Memo ...
and east of
Illinois Route 47
Illinois Route 47 (IL 47) is a largely rural north–south state highway that runs from the Wisconsin state border at Highway 120 (Wisconsin), Highway 120 near Hebron, Illinois, Hebron, to Illinois Route 10, IL 10, just south of Int ...
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DuPage County north of
Illinois Route 64
Illinois Route 64 (IL 64, Illinois 64) is an east–west state highway in Northern Illinois. Its western terminus is at the Iowa state line, connecting with U.S. Route 52 (US 52) and Iowa Highway 64 via the Dale Gardner Veterans Memo ...
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Cook County west of
Interstate 294
Interstate 294 (I-294) is a tolled auxiliary Interstate Highway in northeastern Illinois. It forms the southern portion of the Tri-State Tollway in Illinois. I-294 runs from South Holland at I-80/ I-94 and Illinois Route 394 (IL 394) to N ...
External links
Elgin District official pageNorthern Illinois Conference official pageUnited Methodist Church official page
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Methodism in Illinois