Big Creek Methodist Church
Big Creek Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Sturgis, MS 39769. It is one of 24 churches in Sturgis, and one of 3 Methodist congregations in the city.
Sturgis, MS, 39769Big Creek Methodist 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 Big Creek Methodist Church
It takes 4.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 36.5% (21.1–51.9%)
- Social Isolation: 33.2%
- Poverty Rate: 23.1% (15.0–31.2%)
- Diabetes: 16.3%
- Obesity: 39.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.7%
- Food Insecurity: 20.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.5% (7.2–17.8%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.8%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Big Creek Methodist Church
- Sturgis Church of Christ — 2.6 mi away
- Wake Forest Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away
- Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away
- Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away
- Springhill Church — 3.6 mi away in Ackerman, MS
- Bethlehem Church — 4 mi away in Starkville, MS
- Saved by Grace Ministries — 4.3 mi away in Maben, MS
- Self Creek Southern Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away in Maben, MS
- Sturgis Presbyterian Church — 4.6 mi away
- New Light United Methodist Church — 4.6 mi away in Starkville, MS
More Methodist churches nearby
- New Light United Methodist Church — 4.6 mi away in Starkville, MS
- Sturgis United Methodist Church — 4.7 mi away
- Double Springs Methodist Church — 6.4 mi away in Maben, MS
- Liberty Hill United Methodist Church — 7.1 mi away
- Longview Methodist Church — 8 mi away in Starkville, MS
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