Mount Ida First United Methodist Church
Mount Ida First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 243 Whittington Street in Mount Ida, AR 71957. It is one of 12 churches in Mount Ida.
243 Whittington Street, Mount Ida, AR, 71957Phone: (870) 867-3213
Shares a ministry location with Mount Ida Methodist Worship.
Mount Ida First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 543 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Arkansas — 25,985 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 Ida First United Methodist Church
It takes 7.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Obesity: 41.3%
- Social Isolation: 32.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.9%
- Diabetes: 17.0%
- Depression: 25.3%
- Child Poverty: 24.6% (7.7–41.6%)
- Poverty Rate: 21.4% (14.7–28.1%)
- Food Insecurity: 17.5%
- Unemployment: 7.1% (2.0–12.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Mount Ida First United Methodist Church
- Mount Ida Methodist Worship — 0 mi away in Mt Ida, AR
- Mount Ida First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Jesus Name Peace Tabernacle — 0.3 mi away in Mt Ida, AR
- First Assembly of God Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Ida Church of God — 0.5 mi away
- Landmark Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- All Saints Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
- Owley Church — 3.2 mi away
- Sweethome Church — 3.3 mi away in Story, AR
More Methodist churches nearby
- Norman United Methodist Church — 7.3 mi away in Norman, AR
- Oden United Methodist Church — 9.1 mi away in Oden, AR
- County Line Methodist Church — 15 mi away in Glenwood, AR
- Grants Chapel United Methodist Church — 17.8 mi away in Glenwood, AR
- Point Cedar United Methodist Church — 24.5 mi away in Amity, AR
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