The Open Door Community

The Open Door Community is a United Methodist church at 2180 Oak Grove Road in Hattiesburg, MS 39402. It is one of 186 churches in Hattiesburg, and one of 2 United Methodist congregations in the city.

Our mission:1. to INVITE people to worship God and CONNECT them with one another and with Christ;2. to EQUIP and prepare people for life;3. to SEND people into a life of mission and ministry God has prepared for them.

2180 Oak Grove Road, Hattiesburg, MS, 39402

Service times

  • Sunday 8:30am · a contemporary service

Phone: (601) 336-5044 · Website: http://www.parkwayheights.org

The Open Door Community 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.

Ministries at The Open Door Community

  • Meals on Wheels
  • Woodley Elementary School Partnership
  • Mentoring Program
  • Local Outreach

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The community around The Open Door Community

Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.

  • Child Poverty: 44.4% (27.2–61.6%)
  • Food Insecurity: 28.3%
  • Obesity: 42.7%
  • Social Isolation: 36.9%
  • Poverty Rate: 29.7% (18.6–40.8%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.7%
  • Housing Insecurity: 21.4%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.3% (11.0–23.7%)
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.2%
  • Unemployment: 8.6% (1.8–15.7%)
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.1%
  • Transportation Barriers: 15.7%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.1%
  • Diabetes: 13.9%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

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