Burton Memorial Methodist Church
Burton Memorial Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Gulfport, MS 39501. It is one of 161 churches in Gulfport, and one of 4 Methodist congregations in the city.
Gulfport, MS, 39501Burton Memorial 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 Burton Memorial 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. More than 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: 37.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 24.2% (15.8–32.5%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.2%
- Diabetes: 18.3%
- Unemployment: 15.9% (3.1–28.7%)
- Obesity: 44.2%
- Social Isolation: 39.8%
- Child Poverty: 35.3% (17.6–53.0%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.9%
- Poverty Rate: 28.5% (15.2–41.8%)
- Transportation Barriers: 19.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Gulfport city is served by 38 churches — about one congregation for every 1,727 residents.
Churches near Burton Memorial Methodist Church
- Grace Memorial Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Hope Church Gulf Coast — 0.2 mi away
- True Deliverance Outreach Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Word of Faith Christian — 0.3 mi away
- First United Gospel Assembly — 0.3 mi away
- New Testament Pentacostal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Discovery Church — 0.4 mi away
- Gulfport Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- Bible Way Baptist Church Gulfport, MS — 0.4 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Guinn Memorial Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Mt Pleasant United Methodist Church — 3.1 mi away
- Trinity Methodist Church — 3.3 mi away
- Long Beach First United Methodist Church — 4.4 mi away in Long Beach, MS
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