Van Vleet United Methodist Church
Van Vleet United Methodist Church is a church in Houston, MS 38851. It is one of 69 churches in Houston.
Houston, MS, 38851Van Vleet 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 Van Vleet United Methodist Church
It takes 4.4 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 about a third 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: 45.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.0%
- Food Insecurity: 30.7%
- Diabetes: 19.9%
- Social Isolation: 37.5%
- Child Poverty: 34.9% (20.6–49.2%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.7%
- Poverty Rate: 26.9% (18.5–35.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 22.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.8% (6.6–17.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Van Vleet United Methodist Church
- New Zion Church — 0.9 mi away
- Van Vlett Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Friendship Church — 2.2 mi away
- Palestine Missionary Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away
- Ross Hill Missionary Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away
- Center Hill Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away in New Houlka, MS
- New Hope Church — 4 mi away
- Bethany Church — 4.6 mi away in Okolona, MS
- New Hope Church — 4.6 mi away in Okolona, MS
- Union Baptist Church — 5 mi away in Okolona, MS
More Methodist churches nearby
- Buena Vista United Methodist Church — 7.6 mi away
- Houlka Methodist Church — 7.8 mi away in New Houlka, MS
- Farrs Chapel Methodist Church — 8.5 mi away
- Okolona First United Methodist Church — 8.8 mi away in Okolona, MS
- Pleasant Grove Methodist Church — 11.2 mi away in Shannon, MS
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