First United Methodist Church

First United Methodist Church is a church in Columbus, MS 39701. It is one of 182 churches in Columbus.

Columbus, MS, 39701

Shares a ministry location with Columbus First Methodist.

First United 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 United Methodist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.

Child Poverty: 71.0%
Poverty Rate: 39.6% (27.5–51.8%)
Food Insecurity: 37.9%
Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.5%
Housing Insecurity: 26.1%
Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.4%
Diabetes: 20.3%
Obesity: 44.2%
Social Isolation: 39.2%
Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.6%
Transportation Barriers: 20.4%
Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.8%
Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.3% (6.0–18.7%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Columbus city is served by 54 churches — about one congregation for every 362 residents.

Churches near First United Methodist Church

Columbus First Methodist — 0 mi away
Main Street Presbyterian — 0.1 mi away
Hope Community Church — 0.1 mi away
First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
Annunciation Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
Victory Tabernacle — 0.2 mi away
Saint Pauls Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
Saint Catherine Orthodox Church — 0.3 mi away
First Church of the Nazarene — 0.4 mi away

More Methodist churches nearby

Central United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
Saint James United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
Glenn Chapel CME Church — 0.7 mi away
Broadacres United Methodist Church — 2.3 mi away
Wesley United Methodist Church — 2.8 mi away

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