Carthage United Methodist Church
Carthage United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Carthage, MS 39051. It is one of 79 churches in Carthage, and one of 5 Methodist congregations in the city.
Carthage, MS, 39051Carthage 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 Carthage United Methodist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third 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 the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 59.1%
- Obesity: 45.5%
- Food Insecurity: 34.8%
- Poverty Rate: 33.3% (24.7–41.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.4% (14.1–26.7%)
- Social Isolation: 38.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.7%
- Diabetes: 17.3%
- Unemployment: 8.9% (3.4–14.5%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Carthage city is served by 6 churches — about one congregation for every 946 residents.
Churches near Carthage United Methodist Church
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Carthage Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Kingdom Hall Of Jehovah's — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Carthage — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Carthage,MS — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Anne Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- West Carthage Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Galilee Missionary Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- First Apostolic Church — 1.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Freeny Methodist Church — 4 mi away
- Wiggins Methodist Church — 6.3 mi away
- Good Hope Methodist Church — 9.3 mi away in Lena, MS
- Forest Grove Mrthodist Church — 10.4 mi away
- GreenwoodChapel United Methodist Church — 10.5 mi away
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