First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Greenville, MS 38701. It is one of 149 churches in Greenville, and one of 8 Methodist congregations in the city.
Greenville, MS, 38701First 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. More than half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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: 59.0%
- Obesity: 53.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 47.9%
- Child Poverty: 46.3% (31.8–65.2%)
- Poverty Rate: 42.2% (27.6–56.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 41.1%
- Social Isolation: 40.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 38.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 33.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 31.5%
- Diabetes: 29.4%
- Unemployment: 14.7% (3.1–28.5%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Greenville city is served by 72 churches — about one congregation for every 310 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Saint Joseph Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Agape Storge Christian Center — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Living Word Fellowship Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of the Redeemer Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Matthews African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Horeb Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Salvation Army Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Paul Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Hope First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint Matthews African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Revels United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Revels Memorial United Methodist — 0.7 mi away
- Bethel United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away
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