Mount Olive United Methodist Church - Food Distribution Center
Mount Olive United Methodist Church - Food Distribution Center is a Methodist church at 500 Jefferson Street in Van Buren, AR 72956. It is one of 81 churches in Van Buren, and one of 5 Methodist congregations in the city.
500 Jefferson Street, Van Buren, AR, 72956Shares a ministry location with North Point Fellowship.
Mount Olive United Methodist Church - Food Distribution Center 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 Mount Olive United Methodist Church - Food Distribution Center
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.4%
- Food Insecurity: 28.5%
- Obesity: 41.5%
- Social Isolation: 36.4%
- Poverty Rate: 23.2% (14.9–31.4%)
- Diabetes: 15.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.2%
- Depression: 26.5%
- Child Poverty: 25.4% (12.4–38.4%)
- Housing Insecurity: 19.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.0% (8.4–19.7%)
- Unemployment: 6.5% (2.0–11.0%)
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 - Food Distribution Center
- North Point Fellowship — 0 mi away
- River Valley Revival Center — 0 mi away
- Apostolic Faith Church — 0.1 mi away
- Victory Temple Pentecostal Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Wood Memorial Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Olive United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Van Buren Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Pentecostal Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- New Vision Worship Center — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Mount Olive United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- City Heights United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Heritage United Methodist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Campbell Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 2.5 mi away in Fort Smith, AR
- Wyatt Memorial United Methodist Church — 2.7 mi away in Fort Smith, AR
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