Mount Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church
Mount Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church in Kosciusko, MS 39090. It is one of 64 churches in Kosciusko, and one of 2 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
Kosciusko, MS, 39090Mount Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 614 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Mississippi — 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 Mount Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church
It takes 3.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 25.5%
- Obesity: 42.7%
- Social Isolation: 35.9%
- Child Poverty: 35.1% (22.1–48.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.9%
- Poverty Rate: 22.7% (14.8–30.6%)
- Diabetes: 16.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Mount Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church
- New Garden African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Hope Alive Church — 2.4 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
- Jerusalem Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
- Williamsville Baptist Church — 3 mi away
- Abundant Life Church Of God — 3.1 mi away
- Williamsville Independent Methodist Church — 3.3 mi away
- Smyrna Presbyterian Church — 3.4 mi away
- Buffalo African Methodist Episcopal Church — 3.7 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 3.9 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- New Garden African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Williamsville Independent Methodist Church — 3.3 mi away
- Buffalo African Methodist Episcopal Church — 3.7 mi away
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 4.7 mi away
- Kosciusko First United Methodist Church — 4.7 mi away
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