Mount Pleasant African Methodist Episcopal Church
Mount Pleasant African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in MS 39160.
MS, 39160Mount Pleasant African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 620 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Mississippi — 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 Pleasant African Methodist Episcopal Church
It takes 5.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Obesity: 46.8%
- Child Poverty: 44.5% (27.5–61.5%)
- Food Insecurity: 32.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.7%
- Diabetes: 20.4%
- Social Isolation: 39.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.9%
- Poverty Rate: 23.8% (13.9–33.7%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.9%
- Unemployment: 6.4% (1.5–11.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Mount Pleasant African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Stump Ridge Church — 0.6 mi away
- Bunker Hill Church — 2 mi away
- New Banyon Church — 3.4 mi away
- Harmonia Methodist Church — 3.9 mi away
- Shady Grove Church — 3.9 mi away
- Damascus Church — 4 mi away in Durant, MS
- Fellowship Baptist Church — 4.1 mi away in Durant, MS
- Greater St Anderson COGIC — 4.2 mi away in Durant, MS
- Liberty Hill AME Zion Church — 4.4 mi away in Durant, MS
- Barlow African Methodist Episcopal Church — 4.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Harmonia Methodist Church — 3.9 mi away
- Barlow African Methodist Episcopal Church — 4.5 mi away
- Walden Chapel United Methodist Church — 4.8 mi away in Goodman, MS
- Spring Grove Methodist Church — 8.3 mi away
- Shrock Methodist Church — 8.5 mi away