Saint Marks United Methodist Church
Saint Marks 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, 72450Shares a ministry location with Newton Street Church of Christ.
Saint Marks 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 Saint Marks United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,100 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.
- Child Poverty: 61.7%
- Obesity: 47.9%
- Poverty Rate: 40.3% (30.0–50.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.1%
- Food Insecurity: 30.8%
- Social Isolation: 38.5%
- Depression: 31.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 21.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.8%
- Unemployment: 9.9% (2.7–17.0%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.6%
- Diabetes: 14.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.2% (5.5–16.8%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 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 Saint Marks United Methodist Church
- Newton Street Church of Christ — 0 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Paragould Church of God — 0.7 mi away
- Paragould Christian Church — 0.9 mi away
- Walnut Street Church of Christ — 1 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 1 mi away
- East Side Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- West View Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Saint Mary Catholic Church — 1 mi away
- Greater Vision Church — 1 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Griffin Memorial United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Pruett's Chapel United Methodist Church — 3.3 mi away
- Shiloh United Methodist Church — 4.7 mi away
- Campground United Methodist Church — 5.2 mi away
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