Epworth United Methodist Church
Epworth United Methodist Church is a church in Biloxi, MS 39530. It is one of 81 churches in Biloxi.
Biloxi, MS, 39530Epworth United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 614 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Mississippi — 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 Epworth United 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 a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand 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.
- Food Insecurity: 36.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.9%
- Diabetes: 21.2%
- Obesity: 43.2%
- Social Isolation: 38.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.6%
- Poverty Rate: 28.2% (15.8–40.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 24.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.1% (10.9–23.3%)
- Child Poverty: 26.0% (18.1–48.4%)
- Unemployment: 7.7% (1.4–14.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Biloxi city is served by 27 churches — about one congregation for every 1,784 residents.
Churches near Epworth United Methodist Church
- Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Main Street Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Division Street Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Lighthouse Apostolic Biloxi — 0.4 mi away
- Our Mother of Sorrows Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Back Bay Mission United Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- New Bethel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church of Faith — 0.5 mi away
- Greater Saint John African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Greater Saint John African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- St. Paul United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Eat End United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Heritage United Methodist Church — 2.9 mi away in D'Iberville, MS
- Saint Paul United Methodist — 3.2 mi away in Ocean Springs, MS
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