Mount Vernon Methodist Church
Mount Vernon Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Gloster, MS 39638. It is one of 30 churches in Gloster, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
Gloster, MS, 39638Mount Vernon 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 Mount Vernon Methodist Church
It takes 6.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Obesity: 45.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.0%
- Food Insecurity: 28.7%
- Diabetes: 21.3%
- Social Isolation: 35.8%
- Child Poverty: 31.7% (13.9–49.5%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.8%
- Poverty Rate: 25.1% (16.6–33.5%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.4% (8.8–20.1%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Mount Vernon Methodist Church
- Royal Chapel — 2.2 mi away
- Bunkley Church — 2.9 mi away in Meadville, MS
- Wesley Chapel — 3.4 mi away in Meadville, MS
- Oak Ridge Church — 3.5 mi away
- Douglas Chapel — 3.8 mi away
- Oak Grove Church — 4.1 mi away in Meadville, MS
- Mount Nebo Church — 4.3 mi away in Crosby, MS
- Mount Zinia Church — 4.4 mi away in Meadville, MS
- Union Church — 4.6 mi away
- Mount Pleasant Church — 5 mi away in Meadville, MS
More Methodist churches nearby
- Crosby Methodist Church — 5.2 mi away in Crosby, MS
- Sharron Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 8.6 mi away
- Knoxville Methodist Church — 8.8 mi away in Roxie, MS
- United Methodist Church Centreville — 16.4 mi away in Centreville, MS
- Woodville united Methodist Church — 24 mi away in Woodville, MS
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