First Southern Methodist Church
First Southern Methodist Church is a church in Columbus, MS 39702. It is one of 182 churches in Columbus.
Columbus, MS, 39702First Southern 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 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. About 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: 32.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.9%
- Diabetes: 20.0%
- Obesity: 42.2%
- Social Isolation: 38.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.2%
- Poverty Rate: 17.7% (9.6–25.7%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.6% (6.7–18.5%)
- Unemployment: 6.3% (1.2–11.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Columbus city is served by 54 churches — about one congregation for every 362 residents.
Churches near First Southern Methodist Church
- Columbus Seventh-day Adventist — 0.2 mi away
- First Independent Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- East Columbus Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Canaan Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.7 mi away
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd — 1 mi away
- Apostolic Church Bread of Life — 1 mi away
- Canaan Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Central United Methodist Church — 3.3 mi away
- Saint James United Methodist Church — 3.4 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 3.7 mi away
- Columbus First Methodist — 3.7 mi away
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