First Southern Methodist Church
First Southern Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Minden, LA 71055. It is one of 75 churches in Minden, and one of 4 Methodist congregations in the city.
Minden, LA, 71055First 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 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 59.4% (41.5–77.3%)
- Obesity: 54.4%
- Food Insecurity: 53.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 46.2%
- Poverty Rate: 42.2% (30.4–53.9%)
- Social Isolation: 40.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 36.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 32.4%
- Diabetes: 28.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 27.3%
- Depression: 25.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.7%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Minden city is served by 30 churches — about one congregation for every 242 residents.
Churches near First Southern Methodist Church
- Just Faith Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Good Samaritan Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bethel Faith Temple Church — 0.4 mi away
- Southside Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.5 mi away
- New Light Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Greater Saint Paul Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Minden Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Mount Calm Missionary Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Church of God In Christ — 0.9 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church Sign — 1.2 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away
- First Methodist Church of Minden — 1.3 mi away
- Lakeview United Methodist Church — 2.1 mi away
- Sibley United Methodist Church — 4.6 mi away in Sibley, LA