First United Methodist Church

First United Methodist Church is a church in Jackson, AL 36545. It is one of 22 churches in Jackson.

We are a community of people gathered together to share Christ’s love with our neighbors in our goal to become fully committed disciples of Jesus Christ.

Jackson, AL, 36545

Website: https://fumcjacksonal.org/

First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story.

Ministries at First United Methodist Church

  • Food ministry
  • Children’s Ministry
  • Divorce Care ministry

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The community around First United Methodist Church

It takes 3.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about 1 in 5 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. A scattered parish is still a parish.

Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.

  • Child Poverty: 40.3% (23.0–57.6%)
  • Unemployment: 20.3% (11.5–29.1%)
  • Diabetes: 18.6%
  • Obesity: 43.6%
  • Social Isolation: 37.5%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.9%
  • Food Insecurity: 24.4%
  • Poverty Rate: 23.4% (14.9–31.9%)
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.4%
  • Housing Insecurity: 17.2%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.1%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

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