First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Grenada, MS 38901. It is one of 72 churches in Grenada, and one of 4 Methodist congregations in the city.
Grenada, MS, 38901Shares a ministry location with Grenada First Methodist.
First United 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 First United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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 healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 50.9%
- Child Poverty: 42.4% (27.0–57.9%)
- Social Isolation: 41.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.2%
- Food Insecurity: 35.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.6%
- Diabetes: 20.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.7%
- Unemployment: 9.4% (2.8–16.0%)
- Poverty Rate: 18.5% (9.8–27.3%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Grenada city is served by 29 churches — about one congregation for every 369 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Grenada First Methodist — 0 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Belle Flower MB Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bell Flowers Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- All Saints Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Burning Bush Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Battle Temple Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- Saint James Church — 0.4 mi away
- First New Hope Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Vincent United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Powell Chapel — 0.8 mi away
- Lakewood Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 2.2 mi away
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