First Independent Methodist Church
First Independent Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Cleveland, MS 38732. It is one of 66 churches in Cleveland, and one of 4 Methodist congregations in the city.
Cleveland, MS, 38732First Independent Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 620 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Mississippi — 25,985 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 Independent Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 26.9%
- Obesity: 40.5%
- Social Isolation: 37.8%
- Child Poverty: 33.2%
- Poverty Rate: 28.8% (20.9–36.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.6%
- Diabetes: 16.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.2% (5.8–16.6%)
- Unemployment: 6.9% (1.5–12.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Cleveland city is served by 16 churches — about one congregation for every 818 residents.
Churches near First Independent Methodist Church
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bolivar Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Delta Canterbury — 0.3 mi away
- Delta State BSU — 0.3 mi away
- Wesley Foundation — 0.3 mi away
- Baptist Student Union — 0.4 mi away
- United Pentecostals of Cleveland, Mississippi — 0.4 mi away
- Bible Fellowship Cleveland — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- St. Luke United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Mallalieu United Methodist Church — 6.6 mi away
- Linn Methodist Church — 8.7 mi away in Shaw, MS
- Ruleville United Methodist Church — 10.4 mi away in Ruleville, MS
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