First Southern Methodist Church
First Southern Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Amite City, LA 70422. It is one of 14 churches in Amite City, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
Amite City, LA, 70422First Southern Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 432 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Louisiana — 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 First Southern Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand 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: 45.1%
- Social Isolation: 41.5%
- Food Insecurity: 25.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 21.0%
- Diabetes: 15.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.0%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Amite City town is served by 15 churches — about one congregation for every 162 residents.
Churches near First Southern Methodist Church
- Amite Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- New Life Worship & Praise Center — 0.2 mi away in Amite, LA
- First Baptist Church of Amite — 0.3 mi away
- Church of the Incarnation — 0.3 mi away
- Butlers African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.4 mi away
- Montpelier Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away in Amite, LA
- Saint Helena Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away in Amite, LA
- Crossbrand Cowboy Church Loranger, LA — 0.5 mi away in Loranger, LA
- First United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Church of God In Christ — 0.6 mi away in Amite, LA
More Methodist churches nearby
- Butlers African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.4 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Leonard Chapel — 4.7 mi away in Independence, LA
- Fluker Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 5.8 mi away
- Cooper Chapel — 6.2 mi away in Loranger, LA
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