Griffin Memorial United Methodist Church
Griffin Memorial United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Paragould, AR 72450. It is one of 102 churches in Paragould, and one of 11 Methodist congregations in the city.
Paragould, AR, 72450Griffin Memorial United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 538 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Arkansas — 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 Griffin Memorial United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 48.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.1%
- Food Insecurity: 32.0%
- Social Isolation: 38.6%
- Depression: 31.1%
- Poverty Rate: 25.4% (16.1–34.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 21.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.4%
- Diabetes: 15.3%
- Unemployment: 8.1% (1.9–14.2%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.9%
- Child Poverty: 29.3% (13.7–45.0%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.9% (6.6–21.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Paragould city is served by 34 churches — about one congregation for every 727 residents.
Churches near Griffin Memorial United Methodist Church
- Greater Vision Church — 0.1 mi away
- East Side Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Ridge City Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of Jesus Christ — 0.3 mi away
- True Holiness Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- The Crossing Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bible Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First General Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Third Avenue Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Revival Center Pentecostal Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Saint Marks United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Pruett's Chapel United Methodist Church — 2.6 mi away
- Shiloh United Methodist Church — 4.8 mi away
- Campground United Methodist Church — 6 mi away
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