Sevier Memorial United Methodist Church
Sevier Memorial United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Ferriday, LA 71334. It is one of 46 churches in Ferriday.
Ferriday, LA, 71334Sevier Memorial United 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 Sevier Memorial United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 8 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 89.6%
- Poverty Rate: 52.6% (37.5–67.6%)
- Obesity: 50.6%
- Food Insecurity: 42.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 29.3%
- Diabetes: 25.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.9%
- Unemployment: 19.1% (6.1–32.1%)
- Social Isolation: 39.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.7%
- Depression: 25.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.7% (4.4–19.0%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Sevier Memorial United Methodist Church
- Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
- First Church of God — 0.9 mi away
- The Harvest Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 1.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Rosehill Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Saint Patrick Catholic Church — 1.2 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 1.3 mi away
- Frances Hall — 1.3 mi away
- Greater Saint Reed Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Jefferson Street United Methodist Church — 10.9 mi away in Natchez, MS
- Zion Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 11.1 mi away in Natchez, MS
- Grace United Methodist Church — 12.9 mi away in Natchez, MS
- Lovely Lane United Methodist Church — 13.3 mi away in Natchez, MS
- Waterproof United Methodist Church — 14.8 mi away in Waterproof, LA
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