Umsted Memorial Methodist Church
Umsted Memorial Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Newport, AR 72112. It is one of 47 churches in Newport, and one of 3 Methodist congregations in the city.
Newport, AR, 72112Umsted Memorial 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 Umsted Memorial Methodist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 45.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.0%
- Food Insecurity: 28.3%
- Diabetes: 18.2%
- Child Poverty: 39.8% (26.2–53.7%)
- Social Isolation: 36.8%
- Poverty Rate: 29.3% (21.4–37.1%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.6%
- Unemployment: 11.2% (4.2–18.3%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.9%
- Depression: 26.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Newport city is served by 18 churches — about one congregation for every 419 residents.
Churches near Umsted Memorial Methodist Church
- Holden Avenue Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- East Newport Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.2 mi away
- Project New Start — 0.2 mi away
- First United Pentecostal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Immanuel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Newport PCG — 0.5 mi away
- Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Cecilia Catholic Church — 0.8 mi away
- Cherokee Street Church of Christ — 0.9 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Saint Pauls African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.1 mi away
- Tuckerman United Methodist Church — 9.3 mi away in Tuckerman, AR
- Oak Ridge United Methodist Church — 16.2 mi away
- Bradford Methodist Church — 16.7 mi away in Bradford, AR