Mount Temple Methodist Church
Mount Temple Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Quitman, LA 71268. It is one of 16 churches in Quitman.
Quitman, LA, 71268Mount Temple 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 Mount Temple Methodist Church
It takes 6.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 41.0% (26.3–55.7%)
- Diabetes: 18.0%
- Obesity: 44.5%
- Social Isolation: 35.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.8%
- Depression: 27.6%
- Food Insecurity: 24.5%
- Poverty Rate: 22.0% (14.6–29.5%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.0%
- Unemployment: 6.0% (2.6–9.5%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Mount Temple Methodist Church
- Union Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Sandhill Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away
- Sardis Church — 4.1 mi away in Simsboro, LA
- Mt Calm Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away in Simsboro, LA
- Driskill Church — 4.7 mi away in Simsboro, LA
- Liberty Hill Missionary Baptist Church — 5 mi away
- Quitman First Baptist Church — 6.3 mi away
- Quitman United Methodist Church — 6.3 mi away
- Shady Grove Church — 6.7 mi away in Simsboro, LA
More Methodist churches nearby
- Quitman United Methodist Church — 6.3 mi away
- Hodge Methodist Church — 9.7 mi away in Hodge, LA
- Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church — 9.9 mi away in Ruston, LA
- Simsboro Grace Community Church — 10.6 mi away in Simsboro, LA
- Lewis Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 11.9 mi away in Grambling, LA