Mount Olive United Methodist Church
Mount Olive United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Van Buren, AR 72956. It is one of 81 churches in Van Buren, and one of 5 Methodist congregations in the city.
Van Buren, AR, 72956Website: http://www.yourmtolive.com
Mount Olive 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 Olive United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,100 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: 40.5%
- Social Isolation: 35.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.8%
- Food Insecurity: 24.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.2%
- Depression: 26.5%
- Poverty Rate: 19.2% (11.5–26.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 17.4%
- Diabetes: 14.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.2% (7.1–17.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Van Buren city is served by 38 churches — about one congregation for every 207 residents.
Churches near Mount Olive United Methodist Church
- Victory Temple Pentecostal Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Apostolic Faith Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Olive United Methodist Church - Food Distribution Center — 0.2 mi away
- North Point Fellowship — 0.2 mi away
- River Valley Revival Center — 0.3 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Van Buren Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Wood Memorial Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Mount Olive United Methodist Church - Food Distribution Center — 0.2 mi away
- City Heights United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Heritage United Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Campbell Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 2.6 mi away in Fort Smith, AR
- Wyatt Memorial United Methodist Church — 2.8 mi away in Fort Smith, AR
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